Guess the movie from a musical clue

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A race of diminutive freaks sing ditties ridiculing the foibles of prehensile youth.

42

That’s it.

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.
43

That would be The Doors.

44

And 11 sounds like Pink Floyd’s The Wall during the (I believe) In the Flesh song.

45

A duet by Verdi gives an opera star his comeuppance; a harp solo does nothing for the plot.

46
  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.

47

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.

48

Is #13 (concert where the audience is dead) referring to a Holocaust film (with Jewish musicians serenading the victims in a gas chamber)?

49

Do I get partial credit for citing the “Naked Gun” flick in which Priscilla Presley sings “Memories” and the assassin joins in? :smiley:

50

#1 - Honkytonk Man?
#7 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? ("‘in the jailhouse now’, fellers. Neighbourhood of B")

51

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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  1. In a concert, the singer singles out undesirables (to him) in the crowd and asks that the audience take care of them.
  1. A singer aggravates a censor, gleefully, in song.

I told you they were easy.

  1. In a concert, the entire audience is quite dead.

Actually, in the film I’m thinking of, the audience was dead for a substantial length of time.