# Guess the movie from a musical clue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088 "2003-01-16T22:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/41 "2003-01-23T22:25:40Z")
A race of diminutive freaks sing ditties ridiculing the foibles of prehensile youth. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/42 "2003-01-24T18:19:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auRa \* > \*\*A Clockwork Orange. \*\* That’s it. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*:smack: Is it _Thoroughly Modern Millie_? \*\* Yup. Tapdancing in the elevator is right. Still waiting… 1. The length of a tune extends a man’s suffering; one of the musicians is saddened by this. 2. The key of A averts a sure brawl. 3. The key of B saves a fellow’s family. Just a hint on 5 and 7: the keys are mentioned in the dialog. These are probably too easy: 1. In a concert, the singer singles out undesirables (to him) in the crowd and asks that the audience take care of them. 2. A singer aggravates a censor, gleefully, in song. 3. In a concert, the entire audience is quite dead. ---
**Author:** ![David\_God\_of\_Frogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@David\_God\_of\_Frogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_God_of_Frogs)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/43 "2003-01-24T19:08:01Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. A singer aggravates a censor, gleefully, in song. That would be The Doors. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/44 "2003-01-24T19:23:10Z")
And 11 sounds like Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_ during the (I believe) In the Flesh song. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/45 "2003-01-24T20:02:36Z")
A duet by Verdi gives an opera star his comeuppance; a harp solo does nothing for the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/46 "2003-01-24T22:26:38Z")
1. isn’t _Oklahoma_, is it? I don’t recall the key being mentioned. Here’s another one: A song results in the singer undergoing forced experimental surgery. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/47 "2003-01-25T01:18:30Z")
The song-is-a-coded-message is Hitchcock’s **The Lady Vanishes**. Is the key of A averting a fight referring to Julie Andrews hitting a high note in **Victor/Victoria**? Here’s mine: A Robert Burns ditty, written as a celebration of life, is sung in a scene of climactic horror. A _most delightful_ weekend in the country, bookended by Jimi Hendrix. Inventively off-kilter combinations of banjo, trumpet, squeezebox, flute, violin, etc. (as combined by one veteran film-scorer and one upstart Brit-popper) heighten the sense of eerieness in this period horror film. Three tones, with occult overtones, open the door to a _sanctum sanctorum_, of sorts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/48 "2003-01-25T01:21:51Z")
Is #13 (concert where the audience is dead) referring to a Holocaust film (with Jewish musicians serenading the victims in a gas chamber)? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/49 "2003-01-25T01:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. A recognized tune from a shower soloist invokes a bitter memory. Do I get partial credit for citing the “Naked Gun” flick in which Priscilla Presley sings “Memories” and the assassin joins in? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Toffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Toffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toffe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/50 "2003-01-25T01:37:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minor7flat5 \* > \*\* > > 1. The length of a tune extends a man’s suffering; one of the musicians is saddened by this. > _snip_ > 2. The key of B saves a fellow’s family. > > Just a hint on 5 and 7: the keys are mentioned in the dialog. > \*\* #1 - Honkytonk Man? #7 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? ("‘in the jailhouse now’, fellers. Neighbourhood of B") ---
**Author:** ![penny\_dreadful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/51 "2003-01-25T01:39:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Torgo \* > \*\*A race of diminutive freaks sing ditties ridiculing the foibles of prehensile youth. \*\* _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088/52 "2003-01-26T15:46:54Z")
1. In a concert, the singer singles out undesirables (to him) in the crowd and asks that the audience take care of them. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RadioWave \* > \*\*And 11 sounds like Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_ during the (I believe) In the Flesh song. \*\* 1. A singer aggravates a censor, gleefully, in song. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by David, God of Frogs \* > \*\*That would be The Doors. \*\* I told you they were easy. 1. In a concert, the entire audience is quite dead. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Scrivener \* > \*\*Is #13 (concert where the audience is dead) referring to a Holocaust film (with Jewish musicians serenading the victims in a gas chamber)? \*\* Actually, in the film I’m thinking of, the audience was dead for a _substantial_ length of time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-a-musical-clue/149088.md?page=2)