_Broadway_ Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 The Spy in Black (1939) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 A Southern Yankee (1948) Red Skelton is an inept spy for both sides in the civil war... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).. (spoiler alert!_ Outrageous Fortune (1987)...Peter Coyote is a two timing boyfriend...and a double agent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 NORTH BY NORTHWEST 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Taro in Dr. No (1962) Mundt in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) There are a handful of doubles including Schaeffer (and Smith is a triple agent! ) in Where Eagles Dare (1968). Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye (1995) Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002) Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006) and No Time to Die (2008) Logan Ash in No Time to Die (2021) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 two thousand three hundred ninetieth category Someone makes a wish MAKE A WISH (1937) CINDERELLA (1950)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Big It's a Wonderful Life Three Coins in the Fountain 13 Ghosts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 ALADDIN 13 GOING ON 30 FINIAN’S RAINBOW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 PINOCCHIO THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR LABYRINTH SNOW WHITE DARBY O’GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE LIAR LIAR HOME ALONE 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 The Wizard of Oz 1939 The Brass Bottle 1964 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 REPEAT PERFORMANCE THREE STRANGERS VICE VERSA Multiple film & TV versions of the classic story THE MONKEY'S PAW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Vice Versa (1948) -- written/directed by Peter Ustinov, an early version of the "making a wish and changing bodies" film 1001 Arabian Nights (1959) -- Mr. Magoo's ancestor is Aladdin's uncle Bedazzled (1967) -- a man sells his soul to the devil for seven wishes Freaky Friday (1976) -- "I wish I could switch places with her, for just one day." Shrek Forever After (2010) -- Rumpelstiltskin...'nuff said 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 two thousand three hundred ninety-first category Emergency landing FIVE CAME BACK (1939) THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY (1954) JULIE (1956) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Bricks Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 DESPERATE JOURNEY (1942) TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (1949) FATE IS THE HUNTER (1964) THE FLESH EATERS (1964) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 AIRPORT and therefore AIRPLANE SULLY — emergency water landing 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemaman Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Island in the Sky 1953 The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Don't Drink the Water 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 (1941) The Wizard of Oz (1939) -- The Wizard's balloon arrives in Oz in something that is part way between a spontaneous emergency landing and a gentle crash landing. Kinda. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Women in the Wind (1939) -- mechanical failure, or sabotage? Back from Eternity (1956) -- emergency landing in a South American jungle were cannibals dwell Zero Hour! (1957) -- because we wouldn't have Airplane! if this one hadn't happened first The Cat from Outer Space (1978) -- UFO piloted by a cat makes emergency landing on Earth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 TANGLED DESTINIES (1932) AIR FORCE (1943) PORT SINISTER (1953) GOD'S COUNTRY AND THE WOMAN (1937) YOU GOTTA STAY HAPPY (1948) THE CROWDED SKY (1960) WITHOUT ORDERS (1936) THE BIG LIFT (1950) The musical COME FROM AWAY (recently released as a movie) is all about the forced emergency landings on 9/11 and the towns in Newfoundland that took them in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 I appreciate the effort that goes into finding those great photos and GIFs...! two thousand three hundred ninety-second category Story adapted as a play then adapted as a film ENCHANTED APRIL (1935) OF MICE AND MEN (1939)TOBACCO ROAD (1941) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fausterlitz Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Dracula (1931) Dodsworth (1936) Camille (1936) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) I Remember Mama (1948) The Heiress (1949) Mister Roberts (1955) The Bad Seed (1956) Auntie Mame (1958) A Passage to India (1984) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyWhit Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens -- adapted into a play almost immediately, 1844; first filmed version was a British effort in 1901 Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot -- first appeared at the Theatre Royal in 1859; first film adaptation was in 1918 Little Women (1868, 1869) by Louisa May Alcott -- first appeared on Broadway in 1912; first on film in 1917 Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett -- plagiarized for stage then restaged by Burnett, 1888; British film 1914 The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope -- on stage in New York 1895, in the West End, 1896; first film in 1913 The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James -- Broadway 1950 (subsequent opera, ballet adaptations); first film in 1961 (The Innocents) Death on the Nile (1937) by Agatha Christie -- adapted for English stage 1944, Broadway in 1946; filmed for TV 1950; feature film 1978; various titles One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey -- first appeared on Broadway in 1963, and on film in 1975 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 DIARY OF ANNE FRANK — play by Hackett & Goodrich based on the diary 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Here are some Broadway musical films that were originally based on books or short stories— GUYS AND DOLLS — based on the stories of Damon Runyon SHOW BOAT — based on the novel by Edna Ferber OLIVER — based on the Dickens novel FIDDLER ON THE ROOF — based on the stories by Sholom Aleichem HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING — based on the hilarious book by Shepherd Mead 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shutoo Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 The Book 7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell became the Broadway play The Pajama Game and the 1957 film , th --------------------- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a bestseller for Anita Loos, then a play, and was first filmed in 1928 but is best known for the 1953 version ------------ Ruth McKenney's stories and subsequent book, My Sister Eileen, opened on Broadway, with Shirley Booth in the lead, in 1940... and was still running when the 1942 film was released 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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