Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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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.

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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)

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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
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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
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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)
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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”-

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Movies with the name of a non-American city in the title

  1. Our Man in Havana
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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. :flushed:

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Well, Our Man in Havana is British, so…

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Still, an English-language movie. I think it counts. MDNBiT is a Soviet movie.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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) :slight_smile:

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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”-

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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
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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

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Mythic Movies

  1. Clash of the Titans
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Mythic Movies

  1. Clash of the Titans
  2. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad