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This is an example of the type of film where I reckon all the characters act like they know they're in a famous novel.
Updated version of the old tv series and based on the novel by Oscar Fraley, "The Untouchables" is fresh, smart, and "extremely" tense.
It sometimes even felt like someone had decided to do a documentary on some civilization in the future in some obscure sci-fi novel (or, for a moment, like some wayward planet in the Dune universe).
The film, which was based on the novel Beer and Blood by John Bright, launched Cagney to stardom.
While based on a Graham Greene novel, "Travels with My Aunt" plays on screen like a subdued version of "Auntie Mame."
Writer/director Lance W. Dreesen offers a fresh and novel spin on the standard werewolf premise by cleverly blending the more horrific elements with a surprisingly potent and touching domestic drama.
Had Rozema given this story a new title, introduced the characters with original names, I don't believe that anyone would have suspected it had somehow originated from Jane Austen's appraised novel, Mansfield Park.
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr changed history of horror cinema when he hired director Tod Browning to make the first official adaptation to Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula".
Loosely based on the Bloomingdale scandal and a novel by Dominick Dunne, this movie is a typical trashy made for television fare that has a great cast and is very watchable..especially with DeMornay.
Maybe the fact is that I'm just not a fan of Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities".
I read the novel, or rather, I was forced into reading it, and I am only being honest when I say that the novel was not one of my favorites.
Martin Scorsese's film The Age of Innocence (1993) is an adaptation of a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
Do not forget to read Michael Crichton novel which is as good as the film.
The key parts of Dostoyevsky's novel are either missing, or are so badly twisted, that I found myself laughing hysterically throughout this movie.
Since O&J can get no bankable stars, they decide to do the novel approach of having a film w/ new faces including singer Marjorie Nelson (who happens to catch the eye of director Ed MacLean).
If you examine any major film or novel or play defects pop up.
Adapting JG Ballard's novel might have seemed like a good idea to a director as provocative as David Cronenberg, but if any book screamed un-film-able, it's CRASH.
After watching the 1954 version numerous times and having read the novel several times, I was very disappointed with this version.
There were murders in the original novel, that I do recall, but I do not recall them being borderline slasher kills.
Robert Englund starred in a so-so slasher take on the novel in the late 80s.
Published in 1921, Vicki Baum's German-language novel MENSCHEN IM HOTEL was an international bestseller.
MGM purchased the rights and employed William A. Drake to adapt the novel to the stage.
Titled GRAND HOTEL, it proved a great success on the Broadway stage, and with its fame as both novel and play the studio made the property the focus of its powerful array of contract talent.
When I rented the movie "Mary Shelley's Frakenstein", I expected it to be consistent with the novel; hence, the reference to Mary Shelley in the actual title.
This is true: just a few weeks back, I happened to pick up another novel from Elmore Leonard called 'Valdez is coming'.
Answer for somebody's question: This is original screenplay was wrote with use Turgenev's novel "First Love" (Turgenev is Russian writer).
This movie filmed almost as original novel...
The scandalous best-selling novel by Grace Metalious is brought to life in this somewhat watered-down 20th Century Fox production, although it was still considered shocking and controversial for the time.
Characters straight from Herman Wouk's original novel are dramatic , have feelings , fears , struggles , personal agonies , accomplishments and failures.
An Agatha Christie novel as basis for the plot.
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