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Aug 14, 2016 - 12:58 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In a thread on the other side, I mentioned a film called THE PUMPKIN EATER, the title of which I now find out is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater." That got me thinking of other film titles based on nursery rhymes. Here's what I came up with. Any others?
BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP [1976 television show, AKA BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON] - from the rhyme of the same name
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW [1971 Rock Hudson film] - from "Mary Mary Quite Contrary"
ALONG CAME A SPIDER [2001 thriller with Morgan Freeman] - from "Little Miss Muffet"
KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE [1966 spy film] - a take-off on a line from "Georgie, Porgie")
ROCK-A-BYE BABY [1958 Jerry Lewis film] - From "Hush a Bye / Rock a Bye Baby"
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS [1986 animated film] - from "Hush a Bye / Rock a Bye Baby"
CRADLE WILL ROCK [1999 Tim Robbins film] - from "Hush a Bye / Rock a Bye Baby"
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS [used for several films, including a 1994 Martin Sheen thriller] - from "Hush a Bye / Rock a Bye Baby"
MY FAIR LADY - from "London Bridge is Falling Down"
ALL FALL DOWN [1962 Warren Beatty film] - from "Ring a Ring of Roses"
THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN [1970 Henry Fonda western] - from the rhyme of the same name
THREE BLIND MICE [several films, including a 1938 comedy with Loretta Young] - from the rhyme of the same name
SEE HOW THEY RUN [several films, including one of the earliest television movies, a 1964 thriller with John Forsythe] - from "Three Blind Mice"
WEE WILLIE WINKIE [1937 Shirley Temple film] - from the rhyme of the same name
ALL THE KING'S MEN [1949 political drama with Broderick Crawford] - from "Humpty Dumpty"
THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE [1934 Jeanette MacDonald musical] - from "Hey Diddle Diddle"
JACK AND JILL [2011 Adam Sandler comedy] - from the rhyme of the same name
HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH [1968 British comedy-drama] - from the rhyme of the same name
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE [1976 Jodie Foster thriller] - take-off from a line in "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
LITTLE BOY BLUE [1997 Ryan Phillippe thriller] - from the rhyme of the same name
COME BLOW YOUR HORN [1963 Frank Sinatra comedy] - from "Little Boy Blue"
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Actually, I was reading about this only lately: though MY FAIR LADY seems to be based on a nursery rhyme, one idea from the writers was that it's actually the way the leading lady, Eliza Doolittle, pronounces the name of the fancy neighborhood where she would love to live: Mayfair. Which, in her Cockney dialect, would be pronounced: MY-fair.
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Aug 14, 2016 - 2:12 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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ONE LITTLE INDIAN [1973 James Garner western] - from "Three Little Indians":
One little, two little, three little Indians
Four little, five little, six little Indians
Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians
Ten little Indian boys.
Ten little, nine little, eight little Indians
Seven little, six little, five little Indians
Four little, three little, two little Indians
One little Indian boy.
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