List of films with overtures
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A chronological list of films which include a musical Overture at the beginning, against a blank screen or still pictures. Not included are films where an overture is used to present the credits, or underscores scenes that are already part of the plot.
This list documents the rise and fall of the Overture/Roadshow practice over film history.
In many cases, these overtures have been cut from TV and video releases and can only be found on "restored" DVD versions.
[edit] The "Golden Age" Era
- Show Boat (1929)
- King Kong (1933)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- Marie Antoinette (1938)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Since You Went Away (1944)
- Spellbound (1945)
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- Joan of Arc (1948)
[edit] 1950-1970
- East of Eden (1955)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- High Society (1956)
- Around The World In 80 Days (1956)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- South Pacific (1958)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Spartacus (1960)
- The Alamo (1960)
- West Side Story (1961) (An additional overture, which is not present in the stage version)
- The King and I (1961 reissue)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- How The West Was Won (1962)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Battle of the Bulge (1965)
- The Great Race (1965) (with chorus)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- Doctor Dolittle (1967)
- The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
- Ulysses (1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Ice Station Zebra (1968)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- Oliver! (1968)
- The Lion in Winter (1968)
- Sweet Charity (1969)
- Darling Lili (1970)
- Ryan's Daughter (1970)
[edit] After 1970
- 1776 (1972) (laserdisc version only)
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- Disney's The Black Hole (1979)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Dancer in the Dark (2000)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (Roadshow and Director's Cut versions)
