kazoo

Group A: Dirty Harry, The Odd Couple, Ghandi, A Streetcar Named Desire, From Russia with Love

Group B: Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Joker is Wild, The Sandpiper, The Lion King, High Noon

The difference?

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uncle phil

A - stars still living
B - stars dead

only a guess, since marlo died in the past few days...

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ngdawg

don't have a guess, but the stars in Lion King aren't dead....just their careers are

I do have a guess-a long shot-first group, the theme songs were instrumental, the second group, had lyrics?

slimshaydee

the first group are all plays
the second group had hit songs come from them

slimshaydee

either that or the first ones all had marlon brando in them

kazoo

C'mon-you folks can do better than that!

One guess is on the right track.

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ngdawg

Group A-theme songs were written for the movie
Group B-theme songs were not titled same as the movies or were established songs?

kazoo

Colder

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ngdawg

AARRGGHHH!!! it IS something with the theme songs, right?

Rubyee

Group A- First plays, then movies

Group B- First movies, then plays

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ngdawg

Dirty Harry was a play????

Groupe B won oscars for their theme songs, all released and all sung. Group A's instrumentals didn't win???

uncle phil

ng, you're a trip...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

kazoo

Yes, music is key to the answer.

From Dirty Harry - The play:
Methinks I know what wonderment thou hast. Didst six stings of fire escape my hand, or merely five? Falsehood would cross these lips were I to vow with certainty. Speak to me, thou mewling base-court lout! Have ye a lucky feeling?

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ngdawg

kazoo

2 weeks + since this one has been out-any final guesses before the answer is revealed?

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slimshaydee

let me know if i was close and ill give it another crack

kazoo

Yes, but not about Brando.

But in his honor, I'll get in a t-shirt, go into the city, and scream a woman's name until she either appears, or I get locked up.

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Charlatan

Here is the deal:


Group A: all won or were nominated for awards but Not for songs in their soundtrack... with the exception of From Russia with Love which was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1965 for the song "From Russia with Love" but didn't win

Group B: All of these titles won Oscars for Best Music, Orignial Song

1962 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - "Moon River"
1958 - The Joker is Wild - "All the Way"
1966 - The Sandpiper - "The Shadow of your Smile"
1995 - The Lion King - "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
1953 - High Noon - "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)"

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kazoo

Congratulations to Charlatan for a very detailed answer!

A fuzzy Brando-faced bunny is yours.

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Charlatan

Does it come with a little fuzzy coffin as well?

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Latch

hahaha that's so wrong....