50 Greatest Musical Numbers In Film History

20. Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LssWKaDF9bk There are few things more hopelessly endearing than little boy singers, and Not While I€™m Around is no exception. It€™s a sweet, earnest duet sung between Mrs Lovitt and Toby, her young servant. Despite the fact that most of the characters in the film are terrible, terrible people, these two are very much devoted to one another. In most productions of the show, Toby is actually played as a mentally challenged adult and performed by a tenor rather than a boy soprano, but the film chose to cast an actual child in the role. It was a gamble that paid off, as Ed Sanders was amazing as Toby and had a wonderful chemistry with Helena Bonham Carter.

19. La Marseillaise - Casablanca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM Casablanca is probably one of the only popular romance films where the lead character, the one who traditionally gets the girl, throws in the towel and nobly acknowledges that his rival is just a better person than he is. The performance of La Marseillaise is a huge part of why Rick comes to that conclusion. While at his bar, a group of German soldiers begin belting out a traditional German song. Incensed, Victor Laszlo, the famous Resistance fighter and Ilsa's husband, leads European expatriates in a rousing performance of the French national anthem. It's tremendously stirring, if only because most of the extras in the film were European refugees who had escaped the war, and felt an emotional connection to the patriotic song. It's difficult to watch now without getting choked up, imagine what it must have been like when the movie came out in 1942.