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Mrs. Metalious, the author of this great novel, paid the price of her own honesty with her life.
This novel and the movie that it is based on, have to be taken in the time context it was created.
The events taking place in her youth were the source of Grace Metalious' novel and shaped the course of her story.
A Young Writer rents a house in the desert north of Palm Springs from an Old Queen (both performances atrocious, by the way) to finish a novel.
Turns out Cute Neighbor may have killed his wife but returns to Young Writer to steal his novel.
Or maybe HE wrote the novel.
We have Robert Aldrich who made some very intelligent , cynical movies like ATTACK , THE DIRTY DOZEN , TOO LATE THE HERO and ULZANA'S RAID directing a novel by acclaimed author Joseph Wambaugh and featuring amongst others notable actors like Louis Gosset Jnr and James Woods before they became well known .
Writer-director Robert Harling, working from another novel by Larry McMurtry, probably bears most of the blame, but were audiences even eager to embrace a follow-up to "Terms" 13 years later?
The Light At The Edge of the World marks Kirk Douglas's second filming of a Jules Verne novel.
First, a confession: I did not like the Michael Crichton novel on which this film was based.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY is a gangster film, and an excellent one at that, exploring old themes of loyalty, betrayal, expansion etc. with verve and excellently choreographed, imaginatively novel violence (and no law in sight).
This should be worst depiction of a HP novel.
I found this adaptation of the 1964 Hans Hellmut Kirst novel to actually be superior to the book (how many movies can claim that?).
Elizabeth Janeway's novel becomes depressive soap in the usually-capable hands of director Otto Preminger.
The Bee Movie is very verbal and witty and the premise is cute if not novel.
I've been a fan of the novel for quite a long time, in fact one of the publishing agents came to give a lecture when I was in college on the nature of getting your work published and kept citing the due to be released novel as an example and even then the premise he described sounded amazing.
Grace Metalious' explosive best-selling novel is given the Hollywood treatment in 1957's "Peyton Place".
A triumph You have to do the Hat trick For the three Actors Adel Imam The one and only who remain on the top for years And the outstanding performance by the superb actor Khaled El Sawy You can add also Ahmad Bedeir for his excellent role But Writer-producer Waheed Hamed (who also is the director's father) treats the novel with too much reverence.
In the hands of experimental Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi, the tale of seven "unmarried" young high-school girls who, during a school break, travel to a spooky, remote hilltop house to visit the reclusive, mysterious Aunt of one of their fold only to be consumed one at a time by the Ghost-House/Aunt in increasingly novel ways, is escalated into a spastic, phantasmagorical confetti burst of avant-garde techniques and tonalities.
Even with such a novel idea, it couldn't escape its roots that hang heavily in this old-hat haunted house format.
It was based on a best-selling mystery novel that did Tom Clancy-style business, at a time when post-war Euro mystery writers (like Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - remember them?) were bringing the war back in revisionist ways.
This version of the famous novel of Victor Hugo I found very suitable in general, with good acting and a narration, which give a real idea of the book.
Not a classic to be sure, but a decent TV movie-of-the-week adaptation of the oft-filmed Conan Doyle novel.
Based on an Isak Dinesen novel, it appears not to transcend its literary origins.
'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes' in 1973 was the last in the series of motion pictures inspired by Pierre Boulle's novel 'Monkey Planet'.
At many times it feels like a stuffy D.H. Lawrence novel (with the occasional highly charged eroticism).
The local people encountered in the Luberon quickly become assimilated into Rampling's novel - their more outmodish acts being inventions of the novelist's mind (but being re-played inside an Ozon movie).
The gawky, tooth-banded teenager has, in all likelihood, been in Provence all along - and in the projection of the novelist's mind - fashioned into a femme-fatale that makes the LuDIVINE we see on our screens, (and as the central protagonist of the Rampling novel, were it at hand to be read)!
But WOW!, he gives a stunningly brilliant performance as the mentally challenged Lennie in this movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel.
Virginia Clayton (Jenny Wright) stops reading her horror novel entitled 'Much of Madness, More of Sin' by Malcolm Brand at this point.
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