# Movie Marathon (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 461
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9206 "2021-02-08T18:43:01Z")
**Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie Also, here’s a bonus amputee: Lionel Atwill in _Son of Frankenstein_; he can sub in for James Caan. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9207 "2021-02-08T18:51:13Z")
**Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie 6. Stand By Me - “The Body”, Stephen King (Lots of Stephen King options, so I went with one of the better ones) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9208 "2021-02-08T18:58:09Z")
**Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie 6. Stand By Me - “The Body”, Stephen King 7. A.I. - “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” Brian Aldiss ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9209 "2021-02-08T19:07:12Z")
**Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie 6. Stand By Me - “The Body”, Stephen King 7. A.I. - “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” Brian Aldiss 8. The Electric Grandmother - “I Sing the Body Electric,” Ray Bradbury ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9210 "2021-02-08T19:23:10Z")
[quote=“Rebo, post:9209, topic:838780, full:true”] **Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie 6. Stand By Me - “The Body”, Stephen King 7. A.I. - “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” Brian Aldiss 8. The Electric Grandmother - “I Sing the Body Electric,” Ray Bradbury 9. Omega Man - ‘I am Legend’, Richard Matheson (novella) (I originally had Blade Runner - “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Philip K. Dick, but apparently that was a full novel, not a short story) ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9211 "2021-02-08T19:29:01Z")
**Movies adapted from short stories (and the name + author of the story)** 1. Rear Window - “It Had to Be Murder,” Cornell Wollrich 2. The Thing - “Who Goes There?”, John W. Campbell 3. Arrival - “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang 4. The Innocents - “The Turn of the Screw”, Henry James 5. Witness for the Prosecution - “Witness for the Prosecution,” Agatha Christie 6. Stand By Me - “The Body”, Stephen King 7. A.I. - “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” Brian Aldiss 8. The Electric Grandmother - “I Sing the Body Electric,” Ray Bradbury 9. Blade Runner - “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Philip K. Dick 10. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - “The Sobbin’ Women”, Stephen Vincent Benét … _(which was in turn inspired by the abduction of the Sabine women as narrated in Plutarch’s “Life of Romulus”)_ pass _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9212 "2021-02-08T21:17:33Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9213 "2021-02-08T21:21:12Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca I was going to say _Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears_, then I realized it’s only significant if they’re American movies. 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9214 "2021-02-08T21:24:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I was going to say _Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears_ , then I realized it’s only significant if they’re American movies. 😳 Well, _Our Man in Havana_ is British, so… ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9215 "2021-02-08T21:26:20Z")
Still, an English-language movie. I think it counts. MDNBiT is a Soviet movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9216 "2021-02-08T21:27:54Z")
Doesn’t matter, and just to establish it… **Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9217 "2021-02-08T21:34:05Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9218 "2021-02-08T21:53:16Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9219 "2021-02-08T21:54:36Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson 6. An American in Paris ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9220 "2021-02-08T22:09:50Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson 6. An American in Paris 7. Blame It On Rio (I almost cited Marakesh Express with images of The Pineapple Express in my mind) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9221 "2021-02-08T22:50:07Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson 6. An American in Paris 7. Blame It On Rio 8. An American Werewolf in London _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9222 "2021-02-08T23:58:02Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson 6. An American in Paris 7. Blame It On Rio 8. An American Werewolf in London 9. The Grand Budapest Hotel ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9223 "2021-02-09T00:15:57Z")
**Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title** 1. Our Man in Havana 2. Casablanca 3. Hiroshima Mon Amour 4. The Purple Rose of Cairo 5. Moscow on the Hudson 6. An American in Paris 7. Blame It On Rio 8. An American Werewolf in London 9. The Grand Budapest Hotel 10. Destination Tokyo Pass ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9224 "2021-02-09T00:36:35Z")
**Mythic Movies** 1. Clash of the Titans ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/9225 "2021-02-09T01:30:02Z")
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