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    My list of the 20 GREATEST STAGE TO SCREEN ADAPTATIONS is now up at Geekweek: http://www.geekweek.com/2010/02/20-g...aptations.html

    *I did not include musicals.

    *This thread is not complete until Martell comes along to let me know what I left off the list...
    Twitter: @WriterLe

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    I had always thought Casablanca came from the stage play Everyone Comes to Rick's, but I thought I should check before posting and it turns out the play was the source material, but the play had not made it to the stage when the movie premiered.

    The second one that came to mind is A Few Good Men from the Sorkin Broadway play.

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      12 Angry Men, Stalag 17 and Bug woulda been in my twenty.

      Great list, though. And nice essay. Thanks.
      "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

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        How did it not include 'A Few Good Men' !?

        As a film, 'Closer' isn't exactly well known. But 'A Few Good Men' opened up Sorkin's play to a whole new audience.

        I'd knock off 'Closer' and put 'A Few Good Men' instead.

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          Was always rather partial to Death and the Maiden myself.
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            Play It Again Sam-Woody Allen

            Last night in San Pedro

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              Play It Again, Sam again.

              It's my favorite Woody film -- which is weird 'cause he didn't direct it.

              When he's walking up that San Francisco hill with his thick sweater and fisherman's cap on talking to himself, that's quintessential Woody. That's the icon.
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                ROS & GUIL ARE DEAD and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS are the first ones I looked for on the list. I felt that those translations, both scripted by their original playwrights, did an excellent job not only of adapting to the format, but actually improving the narratives.

                (It should be noted, by the way, that Mamet still does not allow the Alec Baldwin scene to be included in stage productions of his play, and with good reason!)

                A few that weren't included, but I think are terrific and rarely ever feel stagebound...

                THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
                HOLIDAY (1938, George Cukor)
                12 ANGRY MEN (1997, William Friedkin)
                THE HISTORY BOYS (2006, Nicholas Hytner)
                THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977, Herbert Ross)
                HARVEY (1950, Henry Koster)
                MISTER ROBERTS (1955, John Ford)
                SHADOWLANDS (1993, Richard Attenborough)

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                  Barefoot in the Park

                  Last night in San Pedro

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                    Sweeney Todd

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                      No Harvey = Fail.
                      "Only nothing is impossible."
                      - Grant Morrison

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                        One of my personal favorites is Six Degrees of Separation... but it didn't make the list.

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                          Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

                          One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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