The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

It’s really hard to believe that someone watched this and thought what the world needs is to make this film into a musical. I don’t normally enjoy colorizations of black and white films, but I don’t think Audrey Jr works without color, even if the colorization I watched did occasionally include people with grey hands. In comparing to the musical, this version also has a handful of minor characters that didn’t make it in the future adaptations. While they sometimes add interesting background, particularly in the case of Seymour’s mother, they do muddy the overall plot a bit and pull the attention away from Audrey Jr.