film title change

[Cal]

last night there was a film on called " a night on the town " .
this film was called " adventures in babysitting " when i was a lad.

are there any other films that this has happened to?

[Danny]

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I watched 'The Longest Yard' a few nights ago , this was made in 1974

But I remember seeing it in the pictures at the time and it was then called 'Mean Machine'

[stevef]

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I know of a couple of Laurel & Hardy films that had different titles.

Fraternally Yours was aka Sons of the Desert
March of the Wooden Soldiers was aka Babes in Toyland

Think this was an English/American thing.

[joybee]

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You might just have something there Steve !
A title that 'flows' here may not 'hit the spot' across the Pond

Though after Wikipedia-ing The Long Yard and Mean Machine it appears that Mean Machine was a 2002 remake 'based' on the Long Yard.

[Danny]

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Nah
just found this so it must have had two titles ( not sure this is going to work as a link!)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DG

[joybee]

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My info on the remake came from our friends at IMDB -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291341/

so there definately was a remake - but with your evidence Danny, maybe the reason was the one Steve suggested, different titles for UK and US !

[Cal]

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after a bit or research the adventures in babysitting title was dropped because it could be interprated as something perverted....

[stevef]

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and 'a night on the town' couldn't???

[Mulletino]

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A couple I have noticed here:

"Airplane" is called "Flying High"
"13 going on 30" is called "Suddenly 30".

There are probably many more but I haven't noticed.

[Danny]

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I think the Laurel and Hardy film 'The Flying Deuces' was in UK as 'Beau Chumps'

Or maybe not....

[stevef]

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Actually they're two different films, although both set in the foreign legion.

[Danny]

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Not to do with films but similar concept: -

'Wheres Wally ?' in UK

'Wheres Waldo ?' in USA

[ZipperCat]

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"The Spaceman and King Arthur"(cinema) - "Unidentified Flying Oddball"(DVD)

"The Pope Must Die"(UK) - "The Pope Must Diet"(USA)