By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the American edition of the book ( which Burgess considered to be " badly flawed ").

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

There is a chapter about her in Julie Powell ’ s book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and appears as herself in the film adaptation.

Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

Andersson also worked on the film adaptation of Mamma Mia !.

Big Brother's face looms from giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( film ) | 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* Bug ( 2006 film ), an adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, directed by William Friedkin

Other roles for Campbell included the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the film version of McHale's Navy, and Escape From L. A., the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York.

In 2009, Panettiere starred again as a cheerleader, this time as Beth Cooper in the film adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper.

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

Elwes filmed a film adaptation of Camilla Dickinson in late 2010 where he played Rafferty Dickinson.

Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

Backwoods Barbie produced four additional singles, including the title track, which was written as part of her score for 9 to 5: The Musical, an adaptation of her feature film Nine to Five.

Benedict also made a cameo appearance in the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team as Pensacola Prisoner Milt.

The 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin is set in Dahomey, as is its film adaptation, Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) by Werner Herzog.

* Da ( film ), a movie adaptation of the play by Hugh Leonard

In popular fiction, the two are often made as the same, such as in the film Excalibur, as well as the Disney film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

Also sung by Gregory Miller ( played by Sidney Poitier ) in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.

The film, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld, about a Tennessee sheriff who falls in love with a moonshiner's daughter, was set to songs by Johnny Cash.

* 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

* The Rubaiyat was quoted in the 1946 King Vidor Western film Duel in the Sun, which starred Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones: " Oh threats of hell and hopes of paradise!

Most recently the subject has been addressed in British film director Bernard Rose's film Snuff-Movie ( 2005 ), the Nimród Antal film Vacancy ( 2007 ) and also in the WWE film The Condemned ( 2007 ) and the Gregory Hoblit film Untraceable.

It stars Gregory Peck, who also co-produced the film with Wyler, plus Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs call Foster " one of the best lawyers I've ever known ," and compared him in style and substance to Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch role in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.

His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

* My: Roman, ( We: A Novel ) 1927 ( translations: Gregory Zilboorg, 1924 ; Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1970, Mirra Ginsburg, 1972 ; Alex Miller, 1991 ; Clarence Brown, 1993 ; Natasha Randall, 2006 ; first Russian-language book publication 1952, U. S .)-Wir, TV film in 1981, dir.

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist ( played by Gregory Peck ) who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut.

" His first such " issue " film was Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), with Gregory Peck, which dealt with subtle anti-Semitism in America.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Another well-known tap film is 1989's Tap, starring the late Gregory Hines and many of the old-time hoofers.

A comparatively unknown remake of Seventh Heaven was produced as a sound film in 1937, starring Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, and Gregory Ratoff, with Henry King directing.

Also in 1965, he played detective Ted Casselle in the Hitchcockian thriller Mirage, with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on a novel by Howard Fast.

This film features Sherman Howard in an early appearance as Bub, and make-up artist Gregory Nicotero playing Pvt.

Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.

El Norte ( 1983 ) is an American and British film, directed by Gregory Nava.