Film as Literature: Films Based on Short Story or Poem

Films Adapted from Short Stories or Poems

TITLE	BASED ON
2001 Space Odyssey	The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
All About Eve	Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr
Almos’ A Man	Almos’ A Man by Richard Wright
Andre’s Mother	Andre’s Mother by Terence McNally
Barn Burning	Barn Burning by William Faulkner
Bernice Bobs Her Hair	Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Birds	The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
Blue Hotel	Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane
Fall of the House of Usher	Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Golden Honeymoon	Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner
Greatest Man in the World	Greatest Man in the World by Ring Lardner
Jilting of Granny Weatherall	Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Ann Porter
Jolly Corner	Jolly Corner by Henry James
Land of Little Rain	Land of Little Rain by Mark Austin
Lifeboat	Lifeboat by John Steinbeck
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg	Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
Man Who Knew Too Much	Man Who Knew Too Much by Charles Bennett
Masque of Red Death	Mask of Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Mr. and Mrs. Smith	Mr. and Mrs. Smith by Norman Krasna
O Brother Where Art Thou	Odyssey by Homer
Pit and the Pendulum	Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Premature Burial	Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
Raven	The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Rear Window	It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
Shadow of a Doubt	Shadow of a Doubt by Gordon McDonnell
Stage Fright	Man Running and Outrun the Constable by Selwyn Jepson
Tales of Terror	Morella, Black Cat and Cask of Amontillado, Fact in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allen Poe
Tom of Ligeia	Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe
Wrong Man	True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson