Fraudulent Film Titles

KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA - I believe Krakatoa is actually west of Java

HOUSE OF A THOUSAND DOLLS - 1967 perky white slave melo with Vincent Price & Martha Hyer - but only twenty "dolls" at best



and dig that groovy title song from Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers

Almost none of Fargo takes place in that North Dakota city. At the end a character is apprehended there.

Songs from the Southern Seas takes place exclusively in landlocked Kazakhstan.

12 ANGRY MEN - There were at least a couple of them who weren't angry.

Black Magic (1949), starring Orson Welles as Count Cagliostro, who uses his natural charisma and hypnotism on his quest for revenge. Hypnotism hardly qualifies as magic, black or white, but that's all we got. Great movie, though.

Just finished watching one: 1954's Black Widow.

It's a whodunit/wrongly accused man melodrama centered around colorful Broadway theater personalities, but doesn't involve anything, figuratively or literally, suggested by the title. Come to that, Ginger Rogers, in spite of her top billing, has far less screen time than costars Van Heflin, Gene Tierney or Reginald Gardner, but makes the most of what she's got, chewing the scenery from one end of the CinemaScope screen to the other as an extravagantly grand stage star (usually waving a cigarette in a long holder, and looking fabulous while doing it). Otto Kruger and a grown-up Peggy Ann Garner lend support, along with George Raft, doing his customary impression of a wood carving, as the investigating detective. Over the top, but fun.

Just no black widows of any kind (unless you count the main titles).     

Okay so you were down a reservoir and a few dogs maybe... but didn't you consider yourself unexpectedly gifted with ear slicings, sadistic torture scenes, betrayal, banter  and flashbacks? 

SHINE - the 1996 biopic that won Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush. The title was a mystery questioned even at the time of the movie. I seem to remember that some dialog dropped in pre-production mentioned the word and a theme song with that title was rejected, leaving a title with no reference to anything in the picture.

I much preferred the remake.....

Horror movies do that a lot