# What movies have had more than one version?

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**Created:** [May 8, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-had-more-than-one-version/107888 "2002-05-08T12:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-had-more-than-one-version/107888/21 "2002-05-09T14:11:39Z")

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There were two tellings of “The Blob”. Never saw the Steve McQueen one, but I was entertained by the second.

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**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:** [May 9, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-had-more-than-one-version/107888/22 "2002-05-09T14:49:31Z")

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I’ve got an entire book devoted to remakes, entitled **Make it Again, Sam**. And it’s not at all an exhaustive report. Hollywood is addicted to remakes, for some reason. Sometimes directors (Cecil B. DeMille with **The Ten Commandments** or Hitchcock with **The Man Who Knew Too Much** ) wants to re-do a film. Sometimes they get the same actor to redo a role in essentially the same movie(Clark Gable in **Mogambo** and **Red Dust** ; Sean Connery in **Thunderball** and **Never Say Never Again** ). But most of the time they just want to do a remake on the theory that it was a success in the past, and might be again. Sometimes it’s still not clear to me why the remake was necessary. Why did Disney redo **The Ansent-Minded Professor**? I understand the Robin Williams remake with the CGI effects ( **Flubber** ), but why the little-lauded Harry Anderson remake that preceded it? Why remake an awful B-grade monster movie as a Z-grade one with even lower budget? ( **The She Creature** remade as **Creature of Destruction** ; **It Conquered the World** remade as **Zontar the Thing from Venus** I could go on …) Why remake **D.O.A.** a half a dozen times? Why, in God’s name, remake **Psycho** , or **Day of the Jackal** , when Hitchcock and Zinneman got it right?

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