M - Maria - Julie Andrews in Sound of Music. Another film I travelled to Leeds to see in the sixties and remember queueing a long time outside the cinema!
O Oliver Twist - Several films have been made , based on the Charles Dickens novel, from 1838 . Probably the best known is the musical version from 1968, "Oliver!", with Mark Lester playing the title role. Interesting to see who was considered for the other roles, but did not eventually appear in the film , including Peter Sellars, and Dick Van Dyke (!) as possibilities for Fagin, and Shirley Bassey as Nancy.
When I was a kid, I misheard a comment on a tv documentary about the film, and for years thought that Lionel Blair wrote the music... not Lionel Bart! ... Well, there is some dancing in it
Likely to be on tv at Xmas.
LOL re the Lionel Blair/Bart! Perhaps Walt Disney should have taken note when Dick Van Dyke wasn't suitable for Fagin - who definitely had a London accent!!!
P Pippi Longstocking - my daughters favourite as a child.
S Smokey - Smokey and the Bandit. American car chase comedy film. Smokey (Sherriff Bulford) was played by Jackie Gleason , the Bandit (Bo Darville) by Burt Reynolds. The long-running tv series "The Dukes of Hazzard" probably "borrowed" some ideas from this.
Likely to be on tv over Xmas
T Tonto - The Lone Rangers sidekick. In Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, 'Tonto' translates as a dumb person. Michael Horse played him in the Legend of the Lone Ranger film.