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He can't help himself

The murderer among us

Network of beggars

Marked on his coat from behind

Saved from the mob by the cops


The Mad Doctor of Market Street


S.S. Paradise

Just as natives worship me

So will the whole world

The scourge of humanity

Anything you want, you ask


The Mad Ghoul


State of death in life

We see what we want to see

Miracle monkey

One who knows the book of life

And can teach you to read it


Mad Love


The hands of Orlac

The Theatre of Horrors

Train wreck takes his hands

Murder grafted to music

Throws a knife to kill Gogol

 

Madame

 

Duchess of Danzig

A former washer woman

Reminds Bonaparte

Of when he could not pay bills

Ripe rollicking ravishing

 

Madame Bovary

 

Thousands of women

Who wish they were Emma are

Saved from her fate not

By virtue but simply by

Lack of determination


Madame Wants No Children


Dancing the Charleston

In a modern apartment

She suspects the worst

Wants Paul back more than ever

And Madame has a baby


Madeleine


The strains of music

Drift up to them and slowly

She begins to dance

Finally persuading her

Lover Emile to join her


The Madwoman of Chaillot


Come to my party

It's way down in the basement

Take this winding stair

Syndicate of exploiters

Is there oil under Paris?


The Magician of Lublin


With fingers like that

He could clean out the pockets

Of the entire world

I see less and less of you

Well, that has its good aspects


The Magnetic Fields


A sewing machine

And an umbrella on a

Dissecting table

Unrelated images

Of objects and ideas


The Magnetic Monster


Radioactive

Office of Scientific

Investigation

Insurance machine receipts

Scanned with a geiger counter


The Magnificent Seven


The villagers stand

Against the fierce banditos

Can you catch that fly?

I was aiming at the horse

We're in Marlboro Country now


I don't understand

Why a man like you took the

Job in the first place

That's the greatest shot I've seen

I was aiming at the horse


Magnum Force


Cold brutality

Killing dissociated

From pain and from life

Since it's without emotion

It has no impact on us


The Major and the Minor


Why don't you get out

Of that wet coat and into

A dry martini

My only regret is that

I have but one wife to give


Malice in the Palace


Cafe Casbah Bah

Somewhere in the orient

Black sheep bah-bah-bah

What delays Hafadollah?

Get the map by hook or crook


The Maltese Falcon


Miles Archer got shot

What's his partner gonna do?

Repaint the windows

The fat man and his gunsel

Do anything for the bird


Man who likes talking

To a man who likes to talk

I'll tell you right out

Well, sir, here's to plain speaking

And a clear understanding

 

Mama's Little Pirate

 

That boy's a whirlwind

Well, what are we, mice or men?

When he gets going

A fellow can't do nothing

Well, men, should we take it all?


Mammy


The knights of the road

Walk miles for one of your smiles

I'm looking at you

Across the breakfast table

Let me sing and I'm happy


There's a light divine

In your eyes that shines for me

Tells me I'm all right

Whatever they say or do

I know how I stand with you


The Man


James Earl Jones as the

President pro tempore

Massive Rod Serling

Magniloquent monolith

Trying not to give offense


Man by the Roadside


Old half-starved Schuster

Offers aid to an angel

Who brings him good luck

Landlord's mysterious death

Throws suspicion on Schuster


A Man Escaped


The story is true

I present it as it is

Moral resemblance

Glory of the Divine Grace

The Spirit breathes where it will


A Man for All Seasons


Not a bad public

Some men think the Earth is round

Others think it flat

Will the King's word make it round?

Will the King's word flatten it?


The Man from Planet X


How may we know what

Processes of thought run through

His head?  How may we

Assume he thinks as we do?

How may we anticipate?


Man Hunt


Stalks Hitler for sport

Captured by the Gestapo

Finally escapes

To become hunted himself

What makes Captain Thorndike run?

 

The Man I Killed

 

Who sent that young man

Out to kill?  Huh?  Who gave them

Bullets and gas and

Bayonets?  We--the fathers!

Here and on the other side!


The Man in Half Moon Street


Not so agile now

Men like us must walk alone

If you are looking

For corpus delecti then

There is always the cellar

 

Man of La Mancha

 

Tilting at windmills

Dream the impossible dream

The knight of mirrors

Challenges Don Quixote

To see himself as a fool


The Man Who Came to Dinner


Shall I tell you how

I glittered through the South Seas

Like a scimitar

I wrote a play with one hand

And made love with the other


The Man Who Could Cheat Death


I shall become the

Inheritor of all the

Sickness never had

Of every pain, disease

A life of illness at once


The Man Who Loved Women


One funeral is

Just like another.  And yet

This one is special.

Not a single man.  Only

Women.  Nothing but women.


The Man Who Would Be King


Peachy and Danny

Embarrassment to Britain

To Kafiristan

Footsteps of Alexander

How to divide five Afghans


The Man with the Golden Arm


Luckless living soon

To be the luckless dead

Anything that pays

Ain't nothing to be ashamed

A road drowns in a bucket



The Man with the Golden Gun


Who would pay that much?

Jealous husbands, outraged chefs

Humiliated

Tailors--the list is endless

The solex agitator


When I kill, it's on

The specific orders of

My government.  Those

I kill are themselves killers.

A girl in a bikini


The Man Who Fell to Earth


Disconnectedness

His people dying from drought

He is corrupted

Distracted from his mission

So damaged he can't return


The Man Who Knew Too Much


Que sera sera

Whatever will be will be

Storm cloud cantata

Assassin wants to fire gun

At the crash of the cymbal


The Man Without a Body


Beautiful the brain

Of Karl Broussard.  It's alive!

I'm Nostradamus

Restored a dead monkey's head

Revitalized the tissues



The Manchurian Candidate


What did you learn at

The ladies' garden party?

When you see that card,

Take your rifle to the booth

To take aim at Mom and Pop


Manhattan Murder Mystery


Claustrophobia

And a dead body.  It's a

Neurotic's jackpot

I forbid you!  Is that what

You do when I forbid you?


The Manitou


Your God won't help you

Nothing in your world will help

White man's medicine

A seller, not a buyer

Send him back where he came from


Manon Lescaut


Manon won her bet

She succeeded with her looks

To win you back and

In order to console you

Sends good-natured Micheline


Mardi Gras


Remember tonight

A fiddle, a rifle, an

Ax and a Bible

Stonewall Jackson loyalty

That man could sell me the bridge


The Mark of Zorro


Diego the fop

Fools his family and girl

To fight corruption

Pawn of the military

Mated by his double edge


Marnie


The old sad story

Promising youth blighted and

Dragged down by money,

Position, noblesse oblige

Always pulling her skirt down


Decent?  I'm a cheat

And a liar and a thief

But I am decent.

Doctor, Doctor, I am ill

Send for him over the hill

 

Marriage Italian Style

 

To save the dying

Fulomena, Don Dumi

Consents to marry

She recovers instantly

Demanding conjugal rights


Married to the Mob


You people are like

The mob.  There's no difference.

The mob is run by

Cheating, murdering psychos.

We work for the president.


Mary Poppins


Sister suffragette

Chim-chim-cheree--step in time

Let's go fly a kite

Supercalifragilis-

Ticexpialidocious


M*A*S*H


In the slaughterhouse

Bloody results of fighting

Chewed by war machine

The public address system

Relationships unresolved


The Mask


I'm like an addict

It demands blood sacrifice

Put the mask on now

Deeper than the subconscious

On the verge of a breakdown


Master of the World


Cross between a blimp

A helicopter, a bat,

A resort hotel

It even has a side porch

For Robur the Conquerer


Maytime


Will you remember?

Now is the month of Maying

Les filles de Cadix

Le regiment de sambre

Old woman relates flashbacks


The Maze


Did you notice the

Rubber covering on all

The hallways and steps

Each one is like a platform

The most dreadful thing I saw


Me and the Colonel


In the cathedral

Of my heart a candle was

Always lit for you

The best lit in all Europe

That's the way he was brought up


Mean Streets


Johnny Boy burns bright

In the city of the night

Martin Scorsese

Is the mortal hand and eye

Who frames fearful history


The Meaning of Life


Up your premium

Scribble away and balance

Tax deductable

Sail the wide accountancy

Find and explore funds offshore


Meet John Doe


Reporter contrives

Suicide on Christmas Eve

Protest against greed

Find a man to play this part

Is New Order possible?


A wide-eyed youngster

Facing a chaotic world

So what does he do?

He finds the world has clay feet

In protest against the state

 

Present it to him

As a cause for the common

The hope of the world

You can chalk up another

One to the Pontius Pilates


Meet Me in Las Vegas


Fun to be in love

The gal with the yaller shoes

Hell hath no fury

I refuse to rock'n'roll

You got looks if you can dream


Meet Me in St. Louis


Over bannisters

The year before the World's Fair

Under the bamboo

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley

A merry little Christmas

 

Margaretha has

Four fatal diseases.  And

It only takes one

The moment I saw him smile

I knew he was just my style


Melvin and Howard


Desert encounter

Pack up all my care and woe

Santa's Souped-Up Sleigh

Dream becomes reality

A beggar becomes a king


Men in Black


Call Doctor Howard

This patient's in a coma

No, I'm in a bed

A victim of circumstances

Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard


Mesa of Lost Women


Nothing different

About Zarpa.  Or is there?

I want a girl who's

Sincere, real, someone who'll stick

By me when the chips are down


Meshes of the Afternoon


Sleepwalking trance dance

The feet of Maya's shadow

Surrealistic

An enclosing mirror where

A head is supposed to be


Metropolis


Contending forces

Labyrinth of catacombs

Mood of oppression

Fantastic futuristic

Nazi choreography


We have made machines

Out of men.  Now I will make

Men out of machines.

Pentagram over the door

Robots always point their toes

 

Midnight

 

I could have you drive

Me around town then tell you

I left my purse home

If you want peace of mind then

Get yourself a taxicab


Midnight Express


I wish you could be

Standing where I'm standing right

Now and fee what that

Feels like because then you would

Know something that you don't know


A Midsummer Night's Dream


Bottom the weaver

In love with Titania

Makes himself an ass

Lamentable comedy

Lord, what fools these mortals be!


Million Dollar Legs


No man can resist

Arm wrestling power struggle

Coup d'etat cabal

Mysterious cross-eyed spy

Bombastic absurdity


The Mind Snatchers


The Happiness Cage

Addictive stimulation

The pleasure center

I don't love what defines me

Pain is part of what I am


The Miracle on 34th Street


Vortex of commerce

Sends shoppers to other stores

His cheery manner

Delights children and parents

Kris Kringle gets his letters


The Miracle Worker


If you want to stay

Radical change of manner

The room is a wreck

But her napkin is folded

Because I ask her to see

 

The Misfits

 

Aimless wanderer

Since his wife's death in childbirth

Rodeo rider

Rounding up mustang horses

To be made into dog food

 

Mississippi

 

Down by the river

Easy to remember but

So hard to forget

Fields deals himself five aces

Then tries to get rid of one


Missle to the Moon


I bid you welcome

Visit the beach, have a Coke

Meteorite field

Extermination chamber

The hardware--the gat--the gun


Mr Deeds Goes to Town


You said I could speak

You said I could have my say

He must be made to

Defend himself before you

Arrive at a decision

 

I must look funny

If you went to Mandrake Falls

You'd look funny, but

Nobody'd laugh at you 'cause

That wouldn't be good manners


Mister Roberts


I want some action

In the Pacific Ocean

Laundry and morale

Fulminate of mercury

Throw the palm tree overboard


Captain, it is I

Ensign Pulver and I just

Threw your stinking palm

Tree overboard.  Now, what's all

This crud about no movie?

 

Mister Rock and Roll

 

I just happened to

Be there when the breeze started

Blowing up a storm

Pied Piper for illicit

Adolescent emotion


Mr. Saturday Night


I wanted to be

The guy who when he walked in

Everybody

Why him, the lucky bastard?

I'm funnier than he is!


Mr Smith Goes to Washington


You mustn't condemn

You see things as black and white

Angel or devil

That's the young idealist

That isn't how the world runs


Mrs. Miniver


Quiet heros from

Middle class and manor-born

Evacuation

A night in the bomb shelter

Community flower show


Mobsters


This isn't about

Money it's about friendship

Will you be my friend?

If you really want to be

Somebody's friend, it takes time


Moby Dick


Don't call me Ishmael

Ahab seeks the great white whale

Gold piece on the mast

Queequeg orders his coffin

Climaxing in the chase scene

 

Modern Times

 

He waves a red flag

That had fallen from a truck

And is arrested

Humanity crusading

In pursuit of happiness


The Mole People


The eye of Ishtar

Chars scrificial virgins

Hypersensitive

Albino Sumerians

Living on goats and mushrooms


Mommy Dearest


This ain't my first time

Helga, I'm not mad at you

I'm mad at the dirt

I'd rather you go bald to

School than looking like a tramp


No wire coathangers

Christina, bring me the ax

I'm mad at the dirt

From boarding school to convent

This ain't my first rodeo

 

Mondo Topless

 

Color makes me feel

You've only dreamed of women

Like these, but they're real

All you're doing is a dance

Girl with the Throbbing Guitar


Monkey Business


I worked myself up

From nothing to a state of

Extreme poverty

Come, let the violas throb

My regiment leaves at dawn

 

Monsieur Verdoux

 

Marries women with

Money and then murders them

Poison peroxide

If it were done when 'tis done

'Twere well it were done quickly


The Monster and the Girl


There is no Larry

Never has been.  Never will be.

With no abrasions

No bruises but every

Bone in the body broken


Monster from Green Hell


Nature has a way

Of correcting its mistakes

A stampeding herd

Is not the thing for a girl

The size of the wasps changes


The Monster of Piedras Blancas


Dipolvertubron

At the bottom of the sea

Mutilation of the

Reptilian family

Turgid with conversation

 

Monte Carlo

 

Trimmin' the women

Will satisfy the craving

That's what you get for

Being nice to your servants

Beyond the blue horizon


Trimmin' the women

Whatever it is, it's grand

Always in all ways

Beyond the blue horizon

She will love me and like it


Monty Python and the Holy Grail


We dine well here in 

Camelot.  We eat ham and

Jam and Spam a lot.

Many times we're given rhymes

That are quite unsingable


He was not scared to

Be mashed into a pulp or

To have his eyes gouged

Out and his elbows broken

Brave Sir Robin ran away

 

The Moon Is Blue

 

Disarming questions

Would you try to seduce me?

Fend off would-be wolves

Virgin she will remain come

Hell or high guys of all kinds


The Moon Is Down


Slave labor resists

The will of a free people

Cannot be suppressed

Nazis are vulnerable

To our hatred and contempt


Moon over Miami


You started something

Solitary Seminole

Hooray for today

I've got you all to myself

The kindergarten conga


Moon Pilot


We are sending a

Man around the moon this week

Any volunteers

Chimp stabs Talbot with fork

He yelps and leaps to his feet


Moonstruck


She caught you and you

Couldn't get away, so you

Chewed up your own foot.

You're scared of what the wolf will

Do if you try that again

 

More Than a Miracle

 

Once upon a time

The prince must choose a bride from

Seven princesses

With help from seven dumplings

Happily ever after


Morgan!


Bizarre backsliding

Marxist and way-out painter

A suitable case

Secure insecurity

It'll all come tumbling down


Morocco


What am I bid for

A key to my dressing room?

Taking her shoes off

She follows legionnaire

Into the windy desert


The Mosquito Coast


The whole damn country

Ulcerated danger zone

Rabid scavengers

Nobody ever thinks of

Leaving this country


Most Dangerous Man Alive


The conclusion seems

A little presumptuous

But that's what happens

Candell will react like the

Melon and not the carrot


Mother Wore Tights


Dear Alma Mater

Burlington Bertie from Bow

Swinging down the lane

Kokomo, Indiana

Rolling down to Bowling Green


Mothra


The secret fairies

Sing a song about their home

Big caterpillar

Turns into a giant moth

And rescues the tiny twins

 

Motorpsycho

 

Nothing happened

 To her a woman ain't built for

Suck on the poison!

Suck it out!  Suck it some more!

Now you've screwed up the fishing


Mourning Becomes Electra


Unfaithful Christine

Poisons homecoming Ezra

Orin shoots Adam

The hunted become the haunted

How's that for brotherly love?


The Mouse That Roared


War on the US

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick

Pour money into

Their former enemies to

Save the people they've beaten


Movie Maniacs


A couple thousand

People in pictures now know

Nothing about it

Who loaned us their furniture?

If the cops come, you'll find out

 

Mudhoney

 

She's my woman, boy

My woman and you know why?

Because she needs a

Real man, not some gutless boy!

Says Brenshaw to McKinney


The Mummy


Death is the doorway

To new life.  We live today

We shall live again

In many forms we return

He went for a little walk


Murder at the Vanities


Live and love tonight

Lovely one cocktails for two

Marijuana mystery

The ebony rhapsody


Murder, My Sweet


Farewell, my lovely

Mosse Malloy is looking for

Missing jade necklace

Murders and double crosses

Beaten, cheated and knocked out


Murder Over New York


Important events

Like insistent alarm clock

Demand attention

Kitchen stove most excellent

Weapon--good for cooking goose


Behind that curtain

British tenacity with

Chinese patience like

Royal flush in poker game

Must have been a heart attack


Music in the Air


Might as well confess

Just how sweet I think you are

If I don't they guess

I've told ripples in a brook

Made my heart an open book


A beautiful theme

Of every dream I knew

Down deep in my heart

A beautiful melody

That beautiful rhapsody


Mutiny in the Big House


A man of mercy

And a man of murder face

Across battlements

Can you do a time step?  What's

That?  Some kind of convict march?


Mutiny on the Bounty


Call men to duty

Not by flaying their backs, but

By lifting their hearts

Fletcher Christian is still free

But Christian lost too, my lord


My Darling Clementine


Family values

Pa Clanton rules with a whip

Doctor Holliday

Joins Earps for direct action

Gunfight at OK Corral


My Dinner with Andre


I enjoy reading

About other little plays

People have written

And reading the reviews of

Those plays and what people said


My Fair Lady


Why can't the English?

Wouldn't it be loverly?

I've grown accustomed

With a little bit of luck

Get me to the church on time


Why can't the English

Teach their children how to speak?

If you spoke as she

Instead of the way you do

You'd be selling flowers, too


My Gal Sal


Brashness and swagger

On the banks of the Wabash

Fake medicine show

Tarred, feathered, run out of town

Oh, the pity of it all


My Little Chickadee


I generally

Avoid temptation unless

I can't resist it

Come up and see me some time

Philadelphia would do


My Lucky Star


Could you pass in love?

I've got a date with a dream

By a wishing well

This may be the night of nights

The All-American swing

 

My Son John

 

Recognized as an

Intellect and invited

To homes where only

Superior minds communed

A native communist spy


The Mysterians


Earth defense forces

Stars between Mars and Saturn

Were once a planet

It's as though everything

Was put in a big washer


Mysterious Island


Thomas Ayerton

Lived on the island for years

Became the green man

Eating certain mushrooms made

Him distasteful to the plant


The Mystery of the Wax Museum


Immortality

The dream, inspiration of

Man through the ages

It is a cruel irony

People without souls have hands