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Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
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For a collection of short stories that have been adapted to film, see
NO, BUT I SAW THE MOVIE, ed. David Wheeler (Penguin, 1989).
 
The stories include:
Mary Orr, "The Wisdom of Eve" (ALL ABOUT EVE)
Howard Breslin, "Bad Time at Honda" (BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK)
Julio Cortazar, "Blow-Up" (BLOW-UP)
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Body Snatcher" (THE BODY SNATCHER, 1949)
Daphne du Maurier, "Don't Look Now" (DON'T LOOK NOW)
George Langelaan, "The Fly" (THE FLY)
Tod Robbins, "Spurs" (FREAKS)
Damon Runyon, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (GUYS AND DOLLS)
Bruce Jay Friedman, "A Change of Plan" (THE HEARTBREAK KID)
John M. Cunningham, "The Tin Star" (HIGH NOON)
Samuel Hopkins Adams,
"Night Bus" (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT)
Philip Van Doren Stern, "The Greatest Gift" (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
Samson Raphaelson, "The Day of Atonement" (THE JAZZ SINGER)
Eric Hodgins, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (film of the same name)
Robert Bloch, "The Real Bad Friend" (PSYCHO)
Cornell Woolrich, "Rear Window" (REAR WINDOW)
Ernest Haycox, "Stage to Lordsburg" (STAGECOACH)
Arthur C. Clarke, "The Sentinel" (2001: A SPACE ODYESSY)
 
RL Stevenson also wrote "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," adapted several times to
film
 
A D. du Maurier story was the basis for THE BIRDS
 
Damon Runyon gave source material for several films, including the different
versions of LITTLE MISS MARKER and Capra's LADY FOR A DAY and POCKETFUL OF
MIRACLES.
 
Of course, there's also Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
 
Hemingway got Hollywood treatment for "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (THE MACOMBER AFFAIR), as well
as "The Killers"
 
Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" was adapted as THE INNOCENTS and
"The Jolly Corner" was melded with another story to produce Truffaut's
THE GREEN ROOM.
 
Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" became a film with Maximillian Schell.
 
If you really want to stretch a point, there are all those Poe stories that
were adapted by Roger Corman, and there is the anthology film SPIRITS OF
THE DEAD, which adapts three Poe stories.
 
The list is potentially endless, once you start considering all the lesser-known
or forgotten works.  For example, MAN HUNT (1941), based on the story "Rogue
Male"
 
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
 
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