A few short stories-to-film that come to mind are the films SMOOTH TALK

(from "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates),

THE HEARTBREAK KID (From "A Change of Plan" by Bruce Jay Friedman), and

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (from a story of the same name by Richard

Connell.  Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS was taken from nine Raymond Carver

stories.  Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW was based on a short story of the same

name by Cornell Woolrich.  Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is an

expansion of "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke.  John Ford was particularly

fond of adapting short stories.  These include THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY

VALANCE (same title, by Dorothy M. Johnson), THE QUIET MAN (same title, by

Maurice Walsh), and STAGECOACH ("Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox).

 

Dennis Bingham

 

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