# Movies that are "remakes" but with different titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 21, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894 "2023-10-21T17:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/141 "2023-11-13T01:43:38Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The films are notable as one of the first that featured time travel as a plot element (not including the various silent versions of _A Christmas Carol_ …kinda feels like this should’ve sparked an ‘oh, _A Christmas Carol_ begat _Scrooge_ and _Scrooged_ and _The Muppet Christmas Carol_ and…’ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/142 "2023-11-13T13:03:19Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Berkeley Square_ was a 1933 movie starring Leslie Howard, about a man who time travels to 1784, taking the part of his ancestor. He falls in love with one of the women in the house, but gets in trouble because he can’t avoid showing off his knowledge of the future – mentioning a painting to its artist, who hasn’t finished it or shown it to anyone, for example. > > It was remade as _The House on the Square_ (American title: _I’ll Never Forget You_) in 1951 with Tyrone Power, who has been changed to be an atomic scientist. He makes many of the same mistakes as in the original. He also tries to invent things like electric lights. He is sent to Bedlam for saying he knows the future. He also falls in love with a different sister. It was also the inspiration for the stage musical (and later screen musical) _On a Clear Day You Can See Forever_ The play Berkeley Square was by John Balderston, the genius who rewrote Hamilton Deane’s play _Dracula_ for Broadway, then went on to write the screenplay for Universal. He also wrote the script for _The Mummy_, which also featured the reincarnation of a lost love. (_Dracula_, lest we forget, did not, but eventually Dracula’s Reincarnated Wife became a trope of its own. ) > **[Dracula’s Re-incarnated Wife](https://srichardwilkcom.wordpress.com/draculas-re-incarnated-wife/)** > > 2014 saw the release of Dracula Untold, the first feature-length professional film from Irish director Gary Shore, from a script by American screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. This was t… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/143 "2023-11-13T21:25:15Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > _Groundhog Day_ was remade in Italy as [Stork Day](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0374358/). I see Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, who wrote the script for _Groundhog Day_, are also credited as two of the writers for _Stork Day_. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/144 "2023-11-13T21:39:24Z")
**Mogambo** is the 1953 remake of the 1932 film **Red Dust**. And **Mogambo** again stars Clark Gable, no less. But I love the first one best because nobody did snappy patter better than Jean Harlow. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/145 "2023-11-13T23:08:25Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > _Point Blank_ (1967) was remade as _Payback_ (1999) Not really, they are both cinematic versions of the book The Hunter by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) the Parker series, not a remake of the first. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/146 "2023-11-25T04:14:29Z")
TIL that Steven Spielberg has remade his own 1985 film, _The Color Purple_, and it got me wondering about how many directors have remade their own films. That got me to [this page](https://movieweb.com/directors-who-remade-their-own-movies/), which includes several that fit the OP. (I apologize if any of these have already been mentioned above.) - Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland’s action-thriller _In Order of Disappearance_ (2014), remade in English language as _Cold Pursuit_ (2019). - Chilean film director Sebastián Lelio made _Gloria_ (2013), and remade it into an English language film with a similar title, _Gloria Bell_ (2018), starring Julianne Moore and John Turturro. - _Starbuck_ (2011) by Canadian director Ken Scott was first remade by a different director into a French project called _Fonzy_ (2013). Scott then remade it in America as _Delivery Man_ (2013), with Vince Vaughn. - Japanese filmmaker Takashi Shimizu made _Ju-On: The Grudge_ (2002) in Japanese, as well as its American remake, _The Grudge_ (2004). - Michael Mann made _L.A. Takedown_ (1989) and its better-known remake, _Heat_ (1995). - Frank Capra remade _Lady for a Day_ (1933) as _Pocketful of Miracles_ (1961), his final feature film. - Yasujiro Ozu remade _A Story of Floating Weeds_ (1934) as _Floating Weeds_ (1959). - John Ford remade _Judge Priest_ (1934) as _The Sun Shines Bright_ (1953). ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/147 "2023-11-25T07:12:50Z")
Cecil B. DeMille made a silent and a sound version of _The 10 Commandments_. Also, B&W and color. Oh-- and _The Unholy Three_ has both silent and sound versions, just five years apart (1925, 1930). Different directors, but both Lon Chaney & Harry Earles in starring roles. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/148 "2023-11-25T08:32:38Z")
There’s a movie called _The Field_ starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, and Sean Bean and I swear I thought it was a remake of _The Quiet Man._ Harris plays a farmer who is hellbent on purchasing a plot of land his family farmed for generations but a wealthy American is trying to buy it as well. But it’s not a light hearted comedy and Harris plays an overbearing man whose obsession leads to dark places and his whole world falls apart. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/149 "2023-11-25T11:33:39Z")
Hitchcock remade his British film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” from 1934 under the same title in 1956 as the better known American production with James Stewart and Doris Day. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/150 "2023-11-25T11:44:47Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Cecil B. DeMille made a silent and a sound version of _The 10 Commandments_. Also, B&W and color. > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Hitchcock remade his British film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” from 1934 under the same title in 1956 as the better known American production with James Stewart and Doris Day. Those (and a few others) are both listed on the page I linked to, but since this thread is about remakes with _different_ titles, I didn’t include them. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/151 "2023-11-25T12:44:36Z")
I was specifically responding to the question about directors remaking their own films-- which I realize is a tangent, but this thread has been in play a while. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/152 "2023-11-25T13:05:21Z")
_Make Way for Tomorrow_ a 1937 US movie (mom and dad are broke, their adult kids won’t be inconvenienced with helping them, so they have one last day on the town before separating for life) was remade as _Tokyo Story_ in 1953: mom and dad come to the big city, their adult kids can’t be inconvenienced to spend time with them. Unrelated to that, mom gets sick and dies, kids feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/153 "2023-11-25T17:05:29Z")
Was there a ruling on if just modifying the title or shortening it counted? 1991 BBC tv movie “Bernard and the Genie” just got remade with Melissa McCarthy as “Genie” [Trailer here](https://youtu.be/yaD2Sk-qCQY?si=9jVIhJ8eUiZqGS-0) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/154 "2023-11-25T21:47:28Z")
Thanks for mentioning that, as it prompted me to look for and watch the new version. (I always liked the original one.) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/155 "2023-11-26T03:18:51Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > TIL that Steven Spielberg has remade his own 1985 film, _The Color Purple_ Clarification: Spielberg is producing, but not directing, the 2023 version of _The Color Purple_, which is a musical! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/156 "2023-11-26T03:39:36Z")
Not that it applies to the thread topic, but like The Color Purple, a musical version of Mean Girls is scheduled for release next month. In both cases, the new movie is based on a stage musical based on a non-musical film based on a book. (This amuses me because in a second-season episode of 30 Rock, the character Jenna Maroney announced she won an award for Best Actress In A Movie Based On A Musical Based On A Movie.) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/157 "2023-11-26T16:58:23Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Clarification: Spielberg is producing, but not directing, the 2023 version of _The Color Purple_, which is a musical! Well, there was a musical version of \*Gone with the Wind." ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/158 "2023-11-26T17:11:21Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Well, there was a musical version of \*Gone with the Wind." As a movie, or only on stage? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/159 "2023-11-26T17:15:07Z")
Stage It opened and closed the same week, or something like that. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894/160 "2023-11-26T17:16:05Z")
The musical that makes me laugh hardest is the musical version of The Amy Fisher Story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-remakes-but-with-different-titles/991894.md?page=9)