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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 9, 2022 0:43:22 GMT
Outward Bound (1930) Dir. Robert Milton. Adapted from the 1923 hit play of the same name by Sutton Vane, the philosophical fantasy tells the tale of a group of seven passengers who meet in the lounge of an ocean liner at sea, they have no idea why they are there, or where they are bound. However, each of them eventually discovers that they are... Remade as Between Two Worlds (1944) with minor changes reflecting World War II and starring John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eleanor Parker. Worth a mention Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) made-for-TV thriller, broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week with an all-star cast...
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Post by teleadm on Sept 9, 2022 18:31:14 GMT
Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage ( Körkarlen) 1921 was remade in France 1939 as The Phantom Wagon ( La charrette fantôme) by Julien Duvivier and later again in Sweden in 1958, but that version is better forgotten.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 9, 2022 18:51:59 GMT
Based on a French play Il était une fois from 1932 by Francis de Croisset it became a French movie in 1933, then a Swedish movie with Ingrid Bergman in 1938, then with Joan Crawford in Hollywood 1941 and then again in Mexico as La mujer marcada 1957. It's A Woman's Face.
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 10, 2022 12:41:39 GMT
Remade as a Western There were TV remakes as well - one with Dana Wynter and one with Hildegarde Neff. Not seen the infamous Lee Radziwill version
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Post by teleadm on Sept 10, 2022 20:45:05 GMT
Based on Hanns Kraly's story "Almost and Angel" there was It Started with Eve 1941 starring Deanna Durbin and Charles Laughton, I'd Rather Be Rich 1964 starring Sandra Dee and Maurice Chevalier and in what was then West Germany as Oh Jonathan, Oh Jonathan! 1973 starring Franziska Oehme and Heinz Rühmann 1973.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 11, 2023 13:16:45 GMT
Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952) was re-done as Living (2022), garnering an Oscar nomination this year for Bill Nighy.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 11, 2023 14:26:31 GMT
The great 1930 version, starring Lew Ayres: The 1979 TV movie version, starring Richard Thomas: And the 2022 version, nominated for 9 Oscars:
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 12, 2023 1:28:44 GMT
Сорок первый,The Forty-First is a 1927 Soviet silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on a 1924 novella by Boris Lavrenyov. A gritty tale of revolution and class divide, set during the Russian Civil War. The film tells the story of a tragic romance that develops between a female Red Army sniper with forty kills to her name and a captured officer of the White Army. Interestingly from the author Boris Lavrenyov… "I never needed any documentary sources for writing The Forty-First. All the things that came… were based on my own experiences and are about the real people I came to know personally. The character of Maryutka had been taken by me wholesale from Anya Vlasova, the real girl, who'd volunteered for the Red Army and served at the Turkestan Front.” The 1956 film remake was Grigori Chukhrai's directorial debut. Both are wonderful classic movies, well-acted, well-directed, both staying close to the original source material. Styled with different film aesthetics, the later film was made in an era when the production crew was freer to pursue the emotional core of the original story to portray a deeper romance between the characters...
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Post by politicidal on Mar 12, 2023 15:02:18 GMT
One could consider “Gladiator” is a condensed reimagining of “The Fall of the Roman Empire”.
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 24, 2023 13:58:47 GMT
Probably the gold standard of The Miracle Worker (1962) --
-- was remade into a 1979 TV movie starring Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert.
But it was first seen on Playhouse 90 (1957), starring Teresa Wright and Patty McCormack.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 24, 2023 13:59:27 GMT
The 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase (1946) is not quite as good.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 24, 2023 18:13:18 GMT
Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Step Down To Terror (1958) Shadow Of A Doubt (1991, TV Movie)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 27, 2023 22:49:33 GMT
The Stepford Wives (1975) Directed by Bryan Forbes. I enjoyed a rewatch the other night which confirmed my initial thoughts, this is an excellent 70s psychological thriller. Based upon on Ira Levin's 1972 novel of the same name, The Stepford Wives has grown in stature and become a classic cult film, with the term Stepford/Stepford wife becoming a popular science fiction concept. The Stepford Wives (2004) Directed by Frank Oz. An insipid big budget remake, you just cannot rekindle the glorious nostalgia of 1970s. Savaged by the critics and a given a low vote at imdb, the general consensus is.... "In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized."
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 27, 2023 23:10:15 GMT
Another failed remake attempt on another 70s cult classic.... The Wicker Man (1973) UK Directed by Robin Hardy.an undisputed classic film. An American remake of the same name was released in 2006 directed by Neil LaButeto, the film received mostly unfavorable reviews... The original film's director, Robin Hardy, had expressed skepticism and voiced his concerns over the Hollywood remake with his lawyers. Hardy wanted Warner Bros. to remove his name/writing credit from the remake's promotional material. Christopher Lee, who played Lord Summerisle in the original film, commented: "I don't believe in remakes. You can make a follow up to a film, but to remake a movie with such history and success just doesn't make sense to me"... or me.
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