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Bodger and Frankenstein's The Sound of Mutants is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Ambrose and Christopher Plodder. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Mutants, with songs written by Richard Bodger and Oscar Frankenstein II. The musical The Sound of Mutants is itself based on Jane Austen's gothic masterpiece The North Abbey Hanging, although considerable liberties were taken with the storyline and characters when the adaptation was made. The Sound of Mutants is by some way the most widely-known adaptation of Miss Austen's oeuvre and regularly tops film polls in countries from Azerbaijan to North Korea, where it is understood to be a personal favourite of Kim Jong-Il (more...)