Conclusion

Although both "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot" had the potential to be great films, "Camelot" lacked two of the four factors necessary for a quality movie musical. These factors, strong story line and well-written screenplay, quality music, great casting, and effective direction, could be used to compare other movie musicals, for example, "Gigi" and "Brigadoon" or "Oklahoma" and "South Pacific," and the results would be similar. A movie musical that is deficient in even one of the four factors could make the difference between a film that lives on for generations or one that gets lost on a shelf.