This adaptation, by Helen Borgers, was authorized and approved by Julie M. Rivett, Dashiell Hammett's granddaughter.

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

Kurosawa stated that a major source for the plot was the 1942 film noir classic The Glass Key, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, which was previously filmed five years earlier, Pre-Code, under its original title and would be remade again five years later by director John Huston with Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.

The Glass Key ( 1942 ), also starring Ladd, was the second film adaptation of Hammett's novel.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

* The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ) — ( adaptation of Farewell My Lovely with detective " The Falcon " substituting for Marlowe ) George Sanders as The Falcon.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ) — ( adaptation of released in the UK as Farewell My Lovely ) Dick Powell as Marlowe.

The series started on 5 February 2011 on BBC Radio 4 with a 90 minute adaptation of The Big Sleep and continued with The Lady in the Lake ( 12 February 2011 ), Farewell My Lovely ( 19 February 2011 ) and Playback ( 26 February 2011 ).

His best known films from the pre-McCarthy period of his career were film noirs Crossfire, for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination, and Murder, My Sweet, the latter an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely.

Robert Mitchum played Marlowe once again in Farewell, My Lovely ( 1975 ), perhaps the most faithful adaptation of this often-filmed book.

* A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 )-This Borzage-directed adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel has fallen into the public domain and is available online through the Internet Archive.

Marlow's hallucinations are not far from the Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the 1944 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, with Dick Powell as Marlowe.

Shepitko died in a car crash outside of Leningrad with four members of her shooting team in 1979 while scouting locations for her planned adaptation of the novel Farewell to Matyora, by Valentin Rasputin.

) The Farewell is an adaptation for five synthesizers of the choral part of Hoch-Zeiten, and it exists in two versions: for solo percussionist with tape, Strahlen ; and as Klavierstück XIX.

In 1970, she played Mrs Hall in the movie, and later in 1975, she played the dual part of Marie / the Clippie in the radio adaptation of A Soldier's Farewell.

* Heini Göbel, ( 1954 ; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express )

In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

After the success of Mogambo, Kelly starred in a TV play The Way of an Eagle, with Jean-Pierre Aumont before being cast in the film adaptation of Frederick Knott's Broadway hit Dial M for Murder.

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

In a subsequent adaptation of Murder Must Advertise they are married and have at least two children, as in the book of that name.

She also played Miss Murgatroyd in the Miss Marple adaptation, A Murder is Announced, Betsy Prig in a star-studded adaptation of Dickens ' Martin Chuzzlewit and Lady Fox-Custard in Simon and the Witch.

The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4: 50 from Paddington.

Sleeping Murder was filmed by the BBC as a 100-minute film in the sixth adaptation ( of twelve ) in the series Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on August 20, 2007, adapted and illustrated by Bruno Lachard ( ISBN 0-00-725061-4 ).

Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, partly because many of the early TV episodes " Agatha Christie's Poirot " were adaptations of the short stories, in most of which he appeared, or were stories into which he had been introduced in the course of adaptation ( e. g. Murder in the Mews ).

Darrow's other TV appearances include: Emergency Ward 10, The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1975 BBC series The Legend of Robin Hood, as Mr. Tallboy in the 1973 TV adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers ' Murder Must Advertise, as Thomas Doughty in the TV film Drake's Venture, Dombey and Son, Maelstrom, Making News, Pie in the Sky,

In 1963, a film adaptation entitled Murder at the Gallop was released by MGM however this version replaced Poirot with the character of Miss Marple, played by Margaret Rutherford.

Paige also focused on television appearances, playing Dora Bunner in the 2005 ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced in the Marple series, before performing a guest role as a post mistress in Where the Heart Is.

The following months saw him star as British Transport Police officer Mal Craig in the second series of BBC One's Five Days, Roman soldier Bothos in Neil Marshall's feature Centurion, stalking victim Jan Falkowski in U Be Dead, and Colonel John Arbuthnot in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2002 he played the serial killer Harold Shipman, in Shipman, the ITV adaptation of Brian Masters ' book on the case, Prescription for Murder.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel are developing a different device called the BioPen, essentially a " Lab-in-a-Pen ", which can detect known biological agents in under 20 minutes using an adaptation of the ELISA, a similar widely employed immunological technique, that in this case incorporates fiber optics.

* 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.

Atkins's own biggest hit single came in 1965, with " Yakety Axe ", an adaptation of his friend saxophonist Boots Randolph's " Yakety Sax ".

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

Selye conceptualized the physiology of stress as having two components: a set of responses which he called the " general adaptation syndrome ", and the development of a pathological state from ongoing, unrelieved stress.

The conclusion of this investigation, rather than that evolution of a complex adaptation was impossible, " awed by the adaptations of living things, to be stunned by their complexity and suitability ", was " to accept the inescapable but not humiliating fact that much of mankind can be seen in a tree or a lizard.

The Puritan movement of Jacobean times became distinctive by adaptation and compromise, with the emergence of " semi-separatism ", " moderate puritanism ", yo soy chingon

Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including anthropology and literary theory ; this generalization of Saussurean methods, known as " structuralism ", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States.

Making good on his Schizopolis-inspired " artistic wake-up call ", his commercial slump ended in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.

It is a much extended adaptation of his earlier short story " Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess ", with the setting changed from Ireland to England.

The Starfleet Engineering Corps ( also called the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ) is mentioned in several episodes in conjunction with projects such as hollowing out the underground laboratory complex inside the Regula I asteroid in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the design of the Yellowstone-class Runabout in the alternate timeline in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ", and devising a defense against the Breen energy-dampening weapon in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " When It Rains ..." As a result of these successes, Starfleet engineers have gained a reputation as the undisputed masters of technological adaptation and modification.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

On 13 December 2000, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new radio adaptation directed by Howard Davies starring Geraldine McEwan as " Lady Bracknell ", Simon Russell Beale as " Jack Worthing ", Julian Wadham as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Geoffrey Palmer as " Rev.

An adaptation of the song, named " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth ", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy ( Nimoy recites the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish upon an earth and so forth ).