# What movie title has be used the most?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 10, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950 "2001-07-10T13:42:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@T\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_Bill)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/1 "2001-07-10T13:42:12Z")
I just went to look up a movie listing for “Crush” and found that there 5 with that identical title, all unrelated.
(Plus “The Crush”, which I wouldn’t count as the same, but some people might.)
Since you can’t copyright titles, anyone can make a movie called “Gone With The Wind”, as long as it was about a new story.
These all happened to be made in the last decade, so the title “Crush” could end up being made 50 times this century.
But back to the question - What title has been used the most?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/2 "2001-07-10T14:15:18Z")
Do different versions of the same story count? The IMDB lists _nine_ different versions of **The Phantom of the Opera** (all under that title, at least as variants)-- six theatrical films and three TV versions. I recall a _lot_ of different versions of **Dr. Jeckyll and Mister Hyde** and **The Hunchback of Notre Dame**.
Orc are you restricting this to cases where different movies have the same title?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/3 "2001-07-10T14:19:04Z")
46 cases of **Doctor Jeckyll and Mister Hyde** , although only ten movies actually had that title, plus four TV movies.
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### Author:  [@jackas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackas)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/4 "2001-07-10T14:30:35Z")
I would have thought that the Dracula title (and all it’s variations) would have been one of the most popular titles.
And just as a side: As long as no one re-releases Eddie Murphy’s “Boogie in your butt” single I’ll be a happy camper.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/5 "2001-07-10T15:08:12Z")
IMDB lists 111 “DRacula” movies, although only about ten movies (and about four TV movies) are literally called **Dracula**.
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### Author:  [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/6 "2001-07-10T17:26:36Z")
There are tons of Frankensteins and Sherlock Holmes as well, though the different Sherlocks are different stories, and many of the Frankensteins are sequals and stuff. Odd, this doens’t contribute anything relavent to the discussion. oh, well…
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> As long as no one re-releases Eddie Murphy’s “Boogie in your butt” single I’ll be a happy camper.
i got both the regular and extended versions of that song on mp3! “put a dinosaur bone in your butt…”
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/7 "2001-07-10T19:24:39Z")
There are 30 theatrical _Hamlet_ movies (all just that one-word title), plus another 16 TV movies. There are also 11 each for _Romance_ and _(A) Love Story_. There are 11 _David_s and 12 _Laura_s.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/8 "2001-07-10T20:08:52Z")
**Never a Dull Moment** was the title of four unrelated movies and one TV movie.
**Manhunter** is the name of four unrelated movies.
I’m really impressed that there are so many unrelated films entitled **Crush** – more than either of these examples I’ve found.
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### Author:  [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/9 "2001-07-10T23:51:54Z")
Y’all suck; you just aren’t observant enough. Lazy Hollywood producers have poorly attempted to reuse the title of Stephen King’s “It” in hundreds of movies.
IMDB counts at least 1607.
Or, perhaps that is a mostly inane and asinine response.
[cartman]M-ost-ly.[/cartman]
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### Author:  [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/10 "2001-07-11T00:10:21Z")
I don’t think the OP is asking for titles that are obviously based off the same source (ie, Dracula, Jekyll+Hyde), but rather movies using the same name but not of the same source. I have nothing else to add, though 😛
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### Author:  [@RoboDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoboDude)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/11 "2001-07-11T05:12:59Z")
I saw 7 movies titled “Monkey Business”, as well as “Too Much Monkey Business”, “Manhattan Monkey Business”, “No Monkey Business”, and “Some Monkey Business”.
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### Author:  [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/12 "2001-07-11T05:53:30Z")
I suspect that the most commonly used movie title is the preproduction title “To Be Announced.”
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### Author:  [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/13 "2001-07-11T07:08:50Z")
If anyone wants to spend a bit of time, you can download the IMDB database, sort it and find the answer. It’s available at ftp://ftp.imdb.com/pub/interfaces.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/14 "2001-07-11T14:59:47Z")
The IMDB has seven listings for movies called “Hot Stuff”.
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/15 "2001-07-11T16:07:10Z")
I did a quick check of some data downloaded theough Bill H’s link.
the downloaded list has 41 titles of a 40’s series called “Popular Science” which appears to be the most repeated title in their database. The next is 39 versions of “Hamlet”. The greatest number attached to a title which seems to be separate stories would appear to be “The Kiss” (17). The top counts (\>= 15):
41 - Popular Science
39 - Hamlet
33 - Unusual Occupations
28 - Macbeth
27 - Carmen
23 - Romeo and Juliet
22 - Anna Karenina
21 - Cinderella
20 - Othello
17 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
17 - The Kiss
17 - Jack and the Beanstalk
16 - The Three Musketeers
16 - Secrets
16 - Julius Caesar
16 - Don Giovanni
15 - Mutt and Jeff
15 - Desire
15 - Anna
I just did some quick filtering of the data, so there may have been some anomalies in the counting. YMMV. An actual search in imdb itself yields 13 movies titled “The Kiss”,
9 titled “Secrets” and 12 titled “Desire”.
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### Author:  [@isani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isani)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-title-has-be-used-the-most/71950/16 "2001-07-11T16:10:13Z")
If multiple versions of the same story count, the IMDb lists no less than 20 movies called “Cinderella”, 15 that are a.k.a. “Cinderella” and 57 with “Cinderella” somewhere in the title.
My favorite: “Cinderella meets fella” (1938)