I know that's an unlikely pair of titles, but I have two unrelated queries. Was there a film version of the Fowles's novel The Magus? Was Peter O'Toole in it? Is it available on cassette? I'm counting all that as one query. Number Two: Does anyone know if the 1956 (I think) film Beat the Devil can be purchased for less than $50, and if so, from whom? I know it's on tape, I rented it once. Thanks! ______________________________________ | Rick Francis | "...The present era grabs everything that was ever | C47805NF@WUVMD | written in order to transform it into films, TV | Dep't of Comp Lit, | programs, or cartoons. What is essential in a novel | Box 1107 | is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, | Washington Univ. | and so every adaptation contains nothing but the | St. Louis, MO | nonessestial. If a person is still crazy enough to | 63130 | write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he ______________________| has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they can- not be retold. " (From "Immortality" by Milan Kundera)