# Challenge: movies that have music boxes but are not scary or horror **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142 "2013-07-21T23:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/21 "2013-07-22T14:30:28Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Does _Labyrinth_ count as scary? It was scary when I first saw it as a kid, but it’s more of a straight fantasy movie with some scarier elements. Depends on how old you are when you see it. I was 17 and had no problems. The girl I was babysitting was 6 and got so freaked out by the goblins that I had to shut it off. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/22 "2013-07-22T14:52:52Z")
> [@Renifer](#): > > If a music box appears, things go bad. There was a music box in Titanic, although things did subsequently go pear shaped. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/23 "2013-07-22T15:32:15Z")
[The music box](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqDyrPsfd10) from the western “From Noon Til Three”, and the slightly obscene music box from “The Stunt Man”(could someone find a music clip of that for me, please?) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/24 "2013-07-22T15:57:00Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > In White Christmas, Bob Hope sings the title song with music box accompaniment. > > Granted, the town gets shelled shortly thereafter… Nitpickin’: It’s Bing Crosby, not his friend and frequent film-partner Bob Hope. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/25 "2013-07-22T15:57:32Z")
One of those old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies from the late 30’s or early 40’s featured a large number of music boxes as part of the plot. The key ones were made in prison, and the slight variations in the tune for each box were a key to the location of the maguffin.Then there is The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams, where the girl with a limp doesn’t have any “gentleman callers”. That, I believe, has a music box in it, and they have made movies of that a couple of times. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/26 "2013-07-22T16:15:13Z")
Isn’t there a music box (of sorts) that the Tom Hanks character gives to Madison the Mermaid in _Splash_? And then he becomes all confused about how there’s no music in Madison’s world? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/27 "2013-07-22T22:17:12Z")
This one isn’t a horror movie as the term is usually understood: > **[Jenny (1970) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064510/)** > > Jenny: Directed by George Bloomfield. With Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Marian Hailey, Elizabeth Wilson. An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger who is avoiding the draft. She now has a father for her child, and he doesn't have to join the... but there IS a music box at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/28 "2013-07-23T10:54:16Z")
[Falling Down](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/29 "2013-07-23T16:51:30Z")
Black Swan has a music box that IIRC plays the titular theme. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/30 "2013-07-23T17:47:48Z")
In the movie _A Patch of Blue,_ Sidney Poitier gives Elizabeth Hartman a music box that belonged to his grandmother. StG ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/31 "2013-07-23T17:52:30Z")
In the movie being shot in the 1980 movie [_The Stunt Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081568/reference) has a wonderful animated music box, featuring sex between a bear and a girl. \*\* Eli Cross:\*\* [Sam has suggested including a risque artifact in a poignant scene] You’ll get a belly laugh, Sam! **Sam:** What do you mean? What are you talking about? They’ll break their hearts over it! **Eli Cross:** No no no, there won’t be a dry seat in the house! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/32 "2013-07-23T17:57:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > In the movie being shot in the 1980 movie [_The Stunt Man_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081568/reference) has a wonderful animated music box, featuring sex between a bear and a girl. > \*\* > Eli Cross:\*\* [Sam has suggested including a risque artifact in a poignant scene] You’ll get a belly laugh, Sam! > **Sam:** What do you mean? What are you talking about? They’ll break their hearts over it! > **Eli Cross:** No no no, there won’t be a dry seat in the house! Post #23…but thanks for the details. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/33 "2013-07-23T21:52:49Z")
There’s one in Mad Max 2 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/34 "2013-07-25T21:01:05Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > There’s one in Mad Max 2 _shakes fist_ Got through almost the whole thread without one mention of the miniature one Max gives the Feral Kid. ---
**Author:** ![agnesnitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@agnesnitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agnesnitt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/35 "2013-07-25T23:00:47Z")
One of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies from the 40’s features not 1 but THREE! music boxes. “Dressed to Kill”, 1946. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/36 "2013-07-26T04:46:20Z")
I just watched “The Scapegoat,” in which the protagonist gave a music box to his “wife.” It played a song that was meaningful to them. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142/37 "2013-07-26T05:07:00Z")
_The Shop Around the Corner_ isn’t scary at all – it’s an old romantic comedy starring Jimmy Stewart – and part of it involves the shop trying to sell cigar boxes that play music when opened. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-movies-that-have-music-boxes-but-are-not-scary-or-horror/664142.md?page=1)