He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

was the original title of Howard Spring's novel My Son, My Son !, later adapted for the film of the latter name.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

* Pit Pony, TV movie and series adapted from the novel by Joyce Barkhouse

This novel was adapted into a TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man, in 1973, and a spin-off, The Bionic Woman in 1976.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

His novel Drood was set to be adapted into a movie by Guillermo del Toro for Universal Pictures.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

This would be more than the estimated production budget of $ 40 million but a disappointment compared to previous films adapted from a Grisham novel.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

In 1986, the novel was adapted into a computer text adventure game of the same name.

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

* Lincoln ( 1988 film ), a telefilm starring Sam Waterston adapted from Gore Vidal's novel

In Germany, the plant is known as the Alraune: the novel ( later adapted as a film ) Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers is based on a soulless woman conceived from a hanged man's semen, the title referring to this myth of the Mandrake's origins.

* Marathon Man, a novel later adapted into a movie starring Dustin Hoffman

The screenplay was adapted by Dale Van Every, Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman from a story by Sidney Harmon.

That same year, former Doobie Brothers member Michael McDonald released " I Keep Forgettin ' ( Every Time You're Near )", adapted from Leiber and Stoller's " I Keep Forgettin '".

Every second tune is by an English or German composer of unquestioned musical ability, and will be found adapted either to chorus-choir, or advanced congregational singing.

Otto Witte's story was adapted by Harry Turtledove for his fantasy novel Every Inch a King.

It may have been adapted from a New York music-hall song " Every Inch a Sailor ", which itself was a burlesque of " HMS Pinafore ".

Third, we can offer technical help in the formulation of programs for development which are adapted to the country's objectives and resources.

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In 1953, BBC Third Programme aired a 130 minute version of the play, adapted for radio by J. C. Trewin and starring Baliol Halloway as Titus, Sonia Dresdal as Tamora, George Hayes as Aaron and Janette Tregarthen as Lavinia.

The Third Man was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, first on 9 April 1951 with Joseph Cotten, then on 8 February 1954 with Ray Milland.

The online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ( Merriam-Webster, 2002 ) adds that the ISV " consists of words or other linguistic forms current in two or more languages " that " differ from New Latin in being adapted to the structure of the individual languages in which they appear.

Bulldog Drummond's Third Round ( 1925 ) was the second silent film adaptation of the Bulldog Drummond character, starring Jack Buchanan and Betty Faire, adapted by Sidney Morgan from the novel The Third Round by H. C. McNeile, and directed by Morgan.

The story is based on an unproduced musical titled The Third Kiss by Judge Fred G. Moritt, which in turn was adapted from the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolph Besier.

His short story Maare Gaye Gulfam was adapted into a film Teesri Kasam ( The Third Vow ), by Basu Bhattacharya ( produced by the poet-lyricist Shailendra ) in 1966 for which he also wrote the dialogues.

The movie, in which Sayers was portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in the 1971 original, and by Mekhi Phifer in the 2001 remake, was adapted from Sayers ' account of this story in his 1971 autobiography, I Am Third.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

The University's motto, Thought the harder, heart the keener, is adapted from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon.

In fact, the technical procedure in medical examinations may be wisely adapted to his romantic purposes by the husband during the honeymoon.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

An adapted abacus, invented by Tim Cranmer, called a Cranmer abacus is still commonly used by individuals who are blind.

The Aramaic alphabet is adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

This algorithm can easily be adapted to compute the variance of a finite population: simply divide by n instead of n − 1 on the last line.

Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.

* Abrasaxtes, or stones originating in ancient forms of worship, and adapted by the Gnostics

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.

In October 1978, Yale presented a " chamber version " adapted and directed by Keith Hack, with John Glover as Jimmy and June Gable as Begbick.

* Fair and Warmer, adapted by Jack Sharrar from Avery Hopwood's comedy.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

In Great Britain, the only way in which the play was initially allowed to be given in London was in an adapted form made by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman and called Breaking a Butterfly.

The canines were somewhat elongated and were followed by a short gap in each jaw, and the cheek-teeth were adapted for succulent food.

Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.

Whole blood ( plasma and cells ) exhibits non-Newtonian fluid dynamics ; its flow properties are adapted to flow effectively through tiny capillary blood vessels with less resistance than plasma by itself.