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Cat on a Warm Tin Roof
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Everything these days is hyped to the nth degree. I suggest we try to tone down this love of excess by coming up with books, films, plays and songs that are a bit more restrained.
How about, Audrey Hepburn starring in Breakfast at Starbucks
All Quiet on the Home Front
Before I forget it – Above-Average Balls of Fire
The Mediocre Escape
'SAll right
Ladder to Heaven - Led Balloon
The Nearly-New Testament
Drizzle Man
The Undergraduate
You came a long way from St Albans
The stallholder of Venice
The Deer Mouse Hunter
The Court Jester and I
Crouching Pussycat, Hidden Dragonfly
Annoyed Max
The Good Gatsby
On a Clear Day You Can See My House From Here
The Speedy and the Miffed
It's A Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric, Mildly-Eccentric World
Dances With Pomeranians
The Appeasement of the Shrew
Apocalypse Soon
Possibly One Of The Greatest Stories Of The Last Two Millennia, Or Thereabouts
Very Pretty
Influence, Britannia
Mack The Spoon
Those Fair-to-Middlin' Men in Their Flying Machines
Gone With the Zephyr
To Mildly Maim a Mockingbird
The Texas Chainsaw Owner's Manual and Safety Guide
Towering Warm Spell
Stubbed Toe on the Orient Express
Oh What A Lovely Diplomatic Faux-Pas
The Mouse That Squeaked
Napping Attractive
Herbie Goes to Bingo
Relative Novices
Set Up A Meeting With Alfredo Garcia
The Man Who Knew Just a Little
For Whom the Bell Tinkles
Two Brides for Two Brothers
The Masque Of The Red Feathers
Those Adequate Chaps In Their Flying Machines
The Catching of Pelham 123
Around The Inner Ring Road in 80 Minutes
Heckraiser
The Credible Hulk
Brokeback Hillock
The Brook Runs Through It
A Tale of Two Hamlets
Vegeburger Hill
So-so Expectations
Passable Woman
The Poseidin Lark
The Quite Big Escape
Babette's Snack
The Englishman who Climbed Up A Mound and Came Down a Hill
Silent Protest on the Bounty
The Hitchhikers Guide to Wales
The Restaurant at the End of the M5
So Long, And Can I Just Say That the Fish Wasn't Very Fresh?
From Russia With Fondness
Heptapussy
Pebbly Balboa
The Cub in Winter
Annie Get your Slingshot
Normal Activity
Skirmishes and Peace
The Viscount of Tides
The Hunt for Red September
The Sorcerer's Apprentice of Oz
McKenna's Copper
Sois gentil avec moi Bit obscure, this one.
Bunfight at the OK Corral
Nurse No
Like Water for Bouillon
One Hopped Over the Sandgrouse's Nest
The Jungle Pamphlet
Octokitten
The Spy Who Was Fond of Me
200 Leagues Under the Sea
Multi-ethnic Christmas
Where Pigeons Dare
The Catapaults of Navarone
Not Exactly The Longest Day, But It Felt Like Aaaaaages!
Quite A Big Boat With Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Alsoranslet.
Not So Rowdy on the Western Front
The House of the Six Gables
Investigation of a Dodgy-Looking Citizen
The Day the Earth Slowed Down
Illegal Aliens in the Attic
The Partial Monty
Sex and the Suburb
Sisterhood of the Travelling Shorts
The Slightly Soiled Half-Dozen
The Phantom of the Operetta
Jesus Christ, Quite Well-known on the Messiah Circuit
The Very Good Seven
Priscilla of the Desert
Full Suede Jacket
Joseph and his Nice Grey Parka
The Maltese Finch
Raw Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe
A Streetcar Named "23"
Irked Max
Same Time Tomorrow Then, Mr Chips?
Perhaps Not The Greatest Story Ever Told, But It's Certainly Up There With The Best. Call It Third. Or Fourth If You Count "Avatar".
Who's Discomfited By Virginia Wolfe?
Born on the Third of July
Ill Met By Candlelight
Von Ryan's Shunter
The Damnudgers
Blade Jogger
Bored In The USA
Chartered Accountant of Dune
Biplanetary
The Accent of Man
The Utilitarian Objects of the Sierra Madre
The Seamstress Bride
The Boat That Bobbed About A Bit
Dr Maybe
Please Summon Mr Carter
Jog Lola Jog
The Sword in the Scabbard
A Man for Some Seasons
Buns in the Afternoon
How Green is my Dip
Last Man Lounging
Blake's 4
Silverfinger
You Only Live Once
Pearls are Forever
Just Before the Valley of the Dolls
The Credibles
[irach] You missed The Man With The Nickel-Plated Steel Gun
And I'd offer Cubic Zirconias are Forever.
Njarl's Anecdote
The Cotswolds At War
The Valliant Month-and-a-Half
On Her Majesty's Inconspicuous Service
The Monoble
Star Tiffs
"She Loves You (Not, Not, Not)"
Another Bond: Thunderhemisphere
And, of course, Heptopussy
Corporal Scarlet
One of the Greatest Shows on Earth
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
[UK] 'How Green is my Dip'? Like it! The cookery theme is an unexpected bonus.
[SM] Ta! :-) Daleks: Vacation Earth 2150AD
The Valley That Time Mislaid or The Valley That Tim Forgot
When the Vicars Go Marching In.
Mack The Spoon.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, please sit up straight for The Regional Anthem
Ferris Buehler's Hour Off
A Couple of Dalmations
Dozing Beauty
Snow White and the Three Dwarfs
I'll Tell You Who's Coming to Dinner
Angles And Denominators
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The M4
The Dallaglio Code
The World According To James May
I, Robert
The Flip-flops of the Fisherman
Little Shop of Scares
Dolphin Rider
Thunderbirds Have Gone
Indigestion On The Nile
Some Fuss Over Some Nonsense
The Cook And No-One Else
T. the Terrestrial
Somewhat Distant Encounters of the Second Kind
Lord of the Fleas
Octokitten
Batman For a While
The Dim Knight
Armadillos in the Mist
The African Dyke
Where Eagles Convene a Committee
Have a Jar
Jack the Sipper
Ahmed of Arabia
All the Vice-President's Men
A Passage to Indiana
The Sheilas dircted by Jock Strap
The Man Who Worked in a Bank in Monte Carlo
Puppy Day Afternoon
A Bridge Not Quite Far Enough
The Stepping Stones of Madsison County
The Affable Wives of Windsor
Hold Back Tears, the Beloved Country
Midnight in Nižnij Novgorod
You Make Me Wanna Speak A Little More Assertively
Henry IV Part I, Subsection (b)
Maybe It's Because I'm A Resident Of SE25.
From Here To Just Over There
Some Like It Luke Warm
Blow Warm Blow Cool
And the Band Packed Up Their Instruments
The Absent-Minded Tutor
James Cameron's Avatar has been toned back to The N'avi Lark
To Sir, With Nods of Acknowledgement
Ice Station Jackass
My Average Lady
I'm Not Bad, Jack
Cleaned-up Harry
Hidden textWe seem to be straying off topic here. How many of these are toned down versions of over-egged titles?
10,000 Leaves Under the Sea
Jesus Christ Support Act (Phil) I tend to agree. Hope this one will do. :-)
The Man Who Won A Few Quid At Monte Carlo
1 Year BC
The Good 4
Joseph and the Amazing Beige Cardigan. Thanks to the late Willie Rushton.
The Man Who Would Be In Burke's Peerage
Jesus Christ Fairly Well Known
Drizzle Man
Hamburger Helper Hill
The Thirteenth Chartered Accountant
The Boston Jostler
11:45 pm in the Garden of Good and Evil
Plan 8 From Inner Space
Spamabit
My Fuller Figure Greek Wedding
Intellectually Challenged and More Intellectually Challenged
Babette's Snack
Little Trouble in Little China
The Edgehill Sanction
The Edging Tool Man
Weetabix Reloaded
The Man With Two Red Shoes
Star Trek: The Colour Slide & Champion The Wonder Slug I can remember from one of the ISIHAC books
Kelly's Lads
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Canoodling (But Were Wary Of Asking)
Star Wars V: The Kingdom Strikes Back
Indiana Jones and the Penultimate Crusade
Ordinary Measures
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