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.

Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies ( Prison Break ), Mindy Kaling ( The Office ), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie Britton of Spin City, The West Wing, and Friday Night Lights.

Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

* Hex ( film ), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson

Michael Lehmann, the man behind the original film, however, has denied that a sequel's development, saying " Winona's been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there's no script and no plans to do the sequel.

Produced and written by Dan Hartman, it was also featured prominently on the Rocky IV film and soundtrack.

FBI agent Dan Codling informed Sheen and the MPAA that the FBI and the Japanese authorities were already investigating the film makers, who were forced to prove that the murders were fake.

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.

** Dan O ' Herlihy, Irish film actor ( d. 2005 )

" Later in the film, when the brothers are driving rapidly through Chicago, Elwood ( Dan Aykroyd ) comments " If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza.

The film was widely praised by critics, but was overlooked for an award except for a supporting nomination for Chief Dan George.

Hanks next starred in the highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code, based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.

Hanks's next endeavor, released on May 15, 2009, was a film adaptation of Angels & Demons, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

His first major film as director, Dark Star ( 1974 ), was a science fiction black comedy that he cowrote with Dan O ' Bannon ( who later went on to write Alien, borrowing freely from much of Dark Star ).

* Dan " Mad Dog " Morgan was the subject of a feature film, Mad Dog Morgan ( 1976 ), starring Dennis Hopper.

It was later used in the film Blues Brothers 2000 ( 1998 ), where it was played during a scene where Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) and Mack ( John Goodman ) leave two members of the Russian mob unconscious in an alley.

Other regularly appearing celebrities include film writer / director Spike Lee, attorney Alan Dershowitz, comedians Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, politico Vernon Jordan, and television news reporters Diane Sawyer, former Ambassador and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Luers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and panhead engines, were designed and built by two African-American chopper builders-Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy-following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting.

Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film adapted from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, starring Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer, was adapted by James Poe from the novel.

Hip hop producer Dan " the Automator " Nakamura named his publishing company, Sharkman Music, after the film.

* Since 2003, Opus Dei has received world attention as a result of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the novel.