As was mentioned on a recent thread the made for TV movie “L.A. Takedown” was cloned into the popular film “Heat”. And everyone knows about “Marty” the TV show (Playhouse 90?) with Steiger being made into “Marty” the film with Borgnine.
Were there any others of these?
I seem to remember an “Anatomy of a Heavyweight” with Jack Palance and one with Anthony Quinn wasn’t one a feature film (Quinn) and the other a Playhouse 90?
I don’t mean things like Star Trek the Movie where the concept is very similar. I mean a near word-for-word remake for the big screen with (usually) bigger names.
Hmmm. Does the Twilight Zone movie count? They basically adapted three episodes, although changing them considerably, and adding one new one and a framing story.
For that matter, the first Star Trek movie seems to be a remake of the ST episode “The Changeling”, with a bit of “The Immunity Syndrome” and various other episodes tossed in.
Rod Serling’s TV drama Patterns may have been made into a movie, too. I gotta check the IMDB.
Charly won Cliff Robertson an Oscar, and was adapted from the TV drama “The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon” (based, of course, on Daniel Keyes “Flowers for Algernon”).
You know what I just noticed … I wrote Twelve Angry Jurors instead of Twelve Angry Men … I’m such a dork, but I do have a reason.
When I was in high school we put on this play. At the time I had never heard of the movie, I just knew about the play we were doing. Since half the cast were girls, we changed the title from “Men” to “Jurors”. It’s one of those things I can’t friggin’ shake now.
In point of fact you were correct. The most recent incarnation of “Twelve Angry Men” was done as “Twelve Angry Jurors” to give a more modern representation of a jury in modern America.
So Jack, you are a wonderful example of the guy who can say, “Well, I thought I made a mistake in September, but I was wrong.”
The movie “The Bachelor” (1999) seems to be a 100 minute remake of a Three Stooges episode, “The Brideless Groom” (1947). In it Shemp has six hours to get married in order to collect an inheiritance, and ends up with a bunch of women fighting over him. It’s one of the better Shemp era shorts.