THE ANAGRAM PAGE

The idea of Headless Tales is to think of the title of a film … or a book … or a play … and remove one letter from just one of the words to create a completely new work. Below are some of the ideas already sent in to Headless Tales. If you have any ideas of your own and would like to see them on this page, just click HERE.

A BRIDE TOO FAR	Wartime story of an unsuccessful marriage and a successful attack into enemy territory.	Kevin Hale
BUGSY ALONE	Alan Parker’s film about a child gangster with no friends.	Kevin Hale
CANNERS	Soup factory workers gain telepathic powers and threaten the security of the recipe division.	Don Foofnik
DEAD MAN WAKING	Death Row inmate plans elaborate Irish funeral. Seeking sympathy, he finds nun.	Donna & Dale Pringle
FAR FROM THE ADDING CROWD	Escape from a group of accountants.	Kevin Hale
HOE ALONE	Macauley Caulkin stars as a child left to do the gardening.	Kevin Hale
KIND HEARTS AND CORNETS	Ealing comedy in which Dennis Price gets a lucky gambling streak in an ice-cream parlour owned by Alec Guinness.	Kevin Hale
LADY CHATTERLEY’S OVER	Classic tale from D. H. Lawrence of gamekeepers … sex … cricket!	Kevin Hale
LAY MISTY FOR ME	A twisted dog-owner stalk neighbourhood hounds in an effort to breed his beloved Dachshund.	Donna & Dale Pringle
LICE IN WONDERLAND	Parasites gate-crash a tea-party taking the smile of the face of a grinning feline.	Donna & Dale Pringle
MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRAN	Biblical parody about a health-food freak mistaken for the Messiah.	Kevin Hale
OLIVER TWIT	Charles Dickens’ epic about an inept pickpocket.	Kevin Hale
PETTY WOMAN	Julia Roberts annoys Richard Gere with her trifling manner.	Kevin Hale
PUP FICTION	The stories of two bulldogs, a boxer and some other pups intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.	G. H. Deruiter
REBEL WITHOUT A CASE	Classic portrait of an alienated middle-class American teenager, misunderstood by his parents and rejected by society … just because he lost his luggage!	Mike Hatton
ROWING PAINS	Sit-com about adolescents who live in a Massachusetts lighthouse.	Don Foofnik
SANDAL	John Profumo’s shoe-fetish causes political upheaval in the 1960s.	Kevin Hale
THE BIDS	Classic Hitchcock thriller, starring Tippi Hedren, set in an auction room.	Kevin Hale
THE BLAIR ITCH PROJECT	Secret file leaked from Conservative Central Office reveals plan for irritating the Prime Minister during Question Time.	Mike Hatton
THE FORSYE AGA	John Goldsworthy’s story of a family’s well-loved kitchen range.	Kevin Hale
THE MAN IN THE RON MASK	Adaptation of the Dumas classic about Louis XIV’s imprisoned twin-brother – his face hidden beneath a hideous image of President Reagan.	Mike Hatton
THE NAKED AND THE DAD	Army office returns home from the Pacific and finds his daughter with a sailor.	Don Foofnik
THE PINK PANTER	Incompetent French detective investigates the theft of ladies’ underwear.	Kevin Hale
THE PRINCESS BRIE	Cheesy fairy-tale!	Don Foofnik
THE SILENCE OF THE LABS	After catching a serial-killer, FBI agent no longer has nightmares about large black dogs.	Don Foofnik
THEY SHOOT HOSES, DON’T THEY?	Anti fire brigade propaganda film from the 1950s.	Kevin Hale
THIE CHIN SYNDROME	The effects that working in a nuclear power plant can have on the jowls.	Kevin Hale
TREE MEN AND A BABY	A toddler found in the forest complicates the lives of three bachelor rangers.	Don Foofnik
WEST SIDE TORY	William Hague and Kenneth Clarke lead rival gangs of Westminster	Kevin Hale
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBI	Bob Hoskins as a weary private eye investigating the alleged crimes of a cartoon Jewish teacher.	Kevin Hale

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