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Movies and the Books they are based on

Movies have been based on books since the beginning of the film industry. Here are some such books and their movies.

When adding to this list, please add the original literary source first, followed by the film(s) based on it. Keep in alphabetical order by original author’s surname so others can verify the list if needed.

(found at: http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/)

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Dumbo the Flying Elephant
by Helen Aberson And Harold Pearl
 
2. Dumbo (60th Anniversary Edition)
by Ben Sharpsteen
 
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
 
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Widescreen Edition)
by Garth Jennings
 
5. Random Hearts
by Warren Adler
 
6. Random Hearts  
7. War of the Roses
by Warren Adler
 
8. The War of the Roses  
9. Vibrator: A Novel
by Mari Akasaka
 
10. Vibrator
by Ryuichi Hiroki
 
11. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
 
12. Little Women
by Mervyn LeRoy
 
13. Little Women (Collector's Edition)
by Gillian Armstrong
 
14. Tevyes Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
by Sholem Aleichem
 
15. Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)
by Sholem Aleichem
 
16. Fiddler on the Roof (Special Edition)
by Norman Jewison
 
17. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
by Michele Alexander
 
18. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Widescreen Edition)
by Donald Petrie
 
19. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
 
20. Smoke Signals
by Chris Eyre
 
21. Flowers In The Attic
by V.C. Andrews
 
22. Flowers in the Attic
by Jeffrey Bloom
 
23. The Amityville Horror
by Jay Anson
 
24. The Amityville Horror
by Stuart Rosenberg
 
25. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury
 
26. Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
27. I, Robot (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Isaac Asimov
 
28. I, Robot (Widescreen Edition)
by Alex Proyas
 
29. Positronic Man, The
by Isaac Asimov
 
30. Bicentennial Man
by Chris Columbus
 
31. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
 
32. The Handmaid's Tale
by Volker Schlöndorff
 
33. Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
34. Northanger Abbey
by Giles Foster
 
35. Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
36. Mansfield Park (1999)
by Patricia Rozema
 
37. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
38. Persuasion
by Roger Michell
 
39. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
40. Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition)
by Joe Wright (IV)
 
41. Bride and Prejudice  
42. Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
43. Sense and Sensibility
by Ang Lee
 
44. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
45. Clueless  
46. Emma
by Douglas McGrath
 
47. Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
 
48. Tuck Everlasting
by Jay Russell
 
49. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
by Robert Baer
 
50. Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
by Stephen Gaghan
 
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Created by kalavinka on May 09, 2006.