Query: Films based on music that are both Italian comedy films and North American films
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Monster Mash (2000 film)
Man of La Mancha (film)
Evidence from documents: Monster Mash (2000 film): Italian comedy films: Rai Fiction
and North American films: co-produced by DIC Entertainment, L.P.
Films based on music: a 2000 direct-to-video animated musical comedy horror film
Man of La Mancha (film): '''''Man of La Mancha''''' is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical ''Man of La Mancha'' by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel ''Don Quixote'' by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play ''I, Don Quixote'', which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel.


Though financed by Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi and shot in Rome, the film is in English, with all principal actors either British or American, excepting Loren. (Gino Conforti, the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.) The film was released by United Artists, and is known in Italy as ''L'Uomo della Mancha''.