# Sequels you wouldn't know are sequels from the titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 20, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592 "2025-05-20T16:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/61 "2025-05-24T00:23:04Z")
Similarly, the early Ellery Queen novels had a nationality in them: _The Roman Hat Mystery—1929_ _The French Powder Mystery—1930_ _The Dutch Shoe Mystery—1931_ _The Greek Coffin Mystery—1932_ _The Egyptian Cross Mystery—1932_ _The American Gun Mystery—1933_ _The Siamese Twin Mystery—1933_ _The Chinese Orange Mystery—1934_ _The Spanish Cape Mystery—1935_ Their next novel, _Halfway House_ was a change in how Queen was portrayed: they wanted to move on from the puzzle tales they had used previously. It was the last with the “Challenge for the Reader” gimmick and started concentrating more on character. They did suggest the title could have been _The Swedish Match Mystery_ but clearly were giving up on the theme. Later novels gave up on the nationality titling, so this fits the OP, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/62 "2025-05-30T01:32:50Z")
Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford starred in _Salt And Pepper_ — where the black guy is Salt, and the white guy is Pepper, and don’t worry, the movie will pause to explain how that’s a joke — and then they returned for _One More Time_, which, yes, arguably fits as a sequel title, but only in the sense that it would’ve fit all sorts of stuff as a sequel title. _Annie Get Your Gun_ . . . _One More Time_ _Batman Returns_ . . . _One More Time_ _Cry Macho_ . . . _One More Time_ _Déjà Vu_ . . . _One More Time_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/63 "2025-05-30T09:06:04Z")
_April in Paris . . . One More Time_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/64 "2025-05-30T10:23:37Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > and then they returned for _One More Time_, which, yes, arguably fits as a sequel title, but only in the sense that it would’ve fit all sorts of stuff as a sequel title. It’s sort of like the Sidney Poitier/Bill Cosby film **Let’s Do It Again** (1975). You could stick that on the end of a lot of other film titles. **Let’s Do It Again** isn’t really a sequel, but the three Poitier/Cosby films **Uptown Saturday Night** (1974), **Let’s Do It Again** (1975), and **A Piece of the Action** (1977) are, as Wikipedia puts it, viewed as a trilogy, even though the characters have different names in the three films. And it’s kinda hard to see the title of that second film as not suggesting that it’s some kind of sequel. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/65 "2025-05-31T18:48:35Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is a sequel to Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Don’t forget the final act of the trilogy. Not as popular, but still a good romp. > **[The Guilty Mother](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guilty_Mother?wprov=sfti1#)** > > The Guilty Mother (French: La Mère coupable), subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is a drame moral, the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Like the earlier plays of the trilogy it has been turned into operatic form, but it has not entered the general opera repertoire. This was the author's last play. > The characters of Figaro and his associates were so popular that other dramatists had written sequels to The... ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/66 "2025-06-01T20:17:45Z")
I guess there’s also college-age Kurt Russell’s temporary-superpower hijinks by way of invisibility serum in NOW YOU SEE HIM NOW YOU DON’T — you know, before he briefly became THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD, but _after_ THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/67 "2025-06-01T23:21:53Z")
That leads to _The Absent-Minded Professor_ and _Son of Flubber_, where you wouldn’t know the second was a sequel if you hadn’t seen the first. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592/68 "2025-06-02T01:11:03Z")
And _Son of Flubber_ sounds like it should be a sequel to _Flubber_, which was in fact a remake of _The Absent-Minded Professor_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592.md?page=3)