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Movie title Book title & author MPAA Rating Genres
3 for Bedroom C
3 for Bedroom C, by Goddard Lieberson
Not Rated
comedy
5 Fingers
Operation Cicero, by L.C. Moyzisch
Not Rated
drama, thriller
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick :
a clean rural comedy in three acts [play], by Walter Benjamin Hare writing as Beale Cormack
Approved
musical
About Face
Brother Rat [play], by John Monks Jr, and Fred F. Finklehoffe
Not Rated
comedy, musical
Affair in Monte Carlo
Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman, by Stefan Zweig
Approved
drama
Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion [play], by George Bernard Shaw
Approved
comedy
Another Man's Poison
Deadlock [play], by Leslie Sands
Not Rated
crime, drama
The Assassin
Venetian Bird, by Victor Canning
Approved
mystery
At Sword's Point
Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas
Not Rated
adventure
The Belle of New York
The Belle of New York : a musical comedy in two acts [play], by C.M.S. McLellan writing as Hugh Morton.
Not Rated
comedy, musical, romance
Belles on Their Toes
Belles on Their Toes, by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Not Rated
comedy
Bend of the River
Bend of the Snake, by Bill Gulick
Approved
western
Beware, My Lovely
The Man : play in two acts, by Mel Dinelli
Approved
drama, film-noir
The Big Sky
The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Approved
drama, western
The Brigand
The Brigand, by Alexandre Dumas
Not Rated
adventure
Brighthaven Express
Salute the Toff, by John Creasey
Not Rated
crime
Bugles in the Afternoon
Bugles in the Afternoon, by Ernest Haycox
Not Rated
western
Captain Pirate
Captain Blood Returns, by Rafael Sabatini
Not Rated
adventure
Caribbean
"Carib Gold" [novella], by Ellery H. Clark.  In:  The Popular Magazine, Oct 20, 1925 [part 2 of 4].  Also published in book form as Carib Gold.
Not Rated
adventure
Carrie
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
Not Rated
drama, romance
Desert Pursuit
"Horse Thieves' Hosana" [short story], by Kenneth Perkins.  In : Blue Book Magazine, v88 n2, Dec. 1948.
Not Rated
western
Desperate Search
The Desperate Search, by Arthur Mayse
Approved
adventure, drama
Diplomatic Courier
Sinister Errand, by Peter Cheyney
Not Rated
drama
Don't Bother to Knock
Mischief, by Charlotte Armstrong
Approved
drama, thriller
Face to Face
"The Secret Sharer" [short story], by Joseph Conrad, and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" [short story], by Stephen Crane
Not Rated
western, drama
Forbidden Fruit
Act of Passion, by Georges Simenon
Not Rated
foreign language (French), drama
Forbidden Games
The Secret Game, by François Boyer
Not Rated
foreign language (French), drama, war (WWII)
The Girl in White
Bowery to Bellevue : the story of New York's first woman ambulance surgeon, by Emily Dunning Barringer
Not Rated
biography, drama
The Golden Hawk
The Golden Hawk, by Frank Yerby
Not Rated
adventure
Heidi
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
Approved
foreign language (German), drama, family
The Hour of 13
Mystery of the Dead Police, by Philip MacDonald.  Originally published as X v. Rex, by Philip MacDonald writing as Martin Porlock
Not Rated
mystery
The Iron Mistress
The Iron Mistress, by Paul Iselin Wellman
Not Rated
western
Island of Desire
Saturday Island, by Hugh Brooke
Not Rated
romance
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Not Rated
adventure, drama, romance
Les Misérables Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo Not Rated drama
Life of Oharu [also known as Saikaku ichidai onna]
The Life of an Amorous Woman, by Saikaku Ihara
Not Rated
foreign language (Japanese), drama
The Little House
The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton
Not Rated
family, animation, short
The Little World of Don Camillo
The Little World of Don Camillo, by Giovanni Guareschi
Not Rated
foreign language (Italian), comedy
The Long Memory
The Long Memory, by Howard Clewes
Not Rated
drama, thriller
Lovely to Look at
Gowns by Roberta, by Alice Duer Miller
Approved
comedy, musical, romance
Lure of the Wilderness
Swamp Water, by Vereen Bell
Not Rated
adventure, drama
The Lusty Men
articles in Life magazine by Claude Stanush about rodeo champions Bob Crosby and Casey Tibbs
Not Rated
action, drama, western
Lydia Bailey
Lydia Bailey, by Kenneth Roberts
Approved
adventure, history
Mandy [also known as Crash of Silence and The Story of Mandy]
The Day Is Ours, by Hilda Lewis
Approved
drama
Maximka
Maximka : sea stories, by K.M. Staniukovich
Not Rated
foreign language (Russian), adventure
The Member of the Wedding
The Member of the Wedding [novel], and  The Member of the Wedding [play], by Carson McCullers
Not Rated
drama
Milady and the Musketeers
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Not Rated
foreign language (Italian), action, adventure, drama
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge : a novel based on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, by Pierre La Mure
Not Rated
biography, drama
Mr. Denning Drives North
Mr. Denning Drives North, by Alec Coppel
Approved
crime, drama, mystery
My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne Du Maurier
Approved
mystery, romance, drama
My Six Convicts
My Six Convicts : a psychologist's three years in Fort Leavenworth, by Donald Powell Wilson
Not Rated
comedy, drama
No Room for the Groom
My True Love, by Darwin L. Teilhet
Not Rated
comedy
On Dangerous Ground
Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler
Not Rated
crime, film-noir, drama
Outcast of the Islands
An Outcast of the Islands, by Joseph Conrad
Not Rated
drama, adventure
The Pathfinder
The Pathfinder: or, The inland sea, by James Fenimore Cooper
Approved
western
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
Approved
comedy, drama
Plymouth Adventure
The Plymouth Adventure : a chronicle novel of the voyage of the Mayflower, by Ernest Gébler
Approved
adventure, drama, history, romance
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda : being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman, by Anthony Hope
Not Rated
adventure
The Promoter
The Card : a story of adventure in the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett
Not Rated
comedy
The Quiet Man
"The Quiet Man" [short story], by Maurice Walsh.  In:  The Saturday Evening Post, v.205, n.33, February 11, 1933.  Also published as part 3 of the novel Green Rushes, by Maurice Walsh.  Approved
drama, romance, comedy
Return of the Texan
The Home Place, by Fred Gipson
Not Rated
western, drama
The Ring
The Square Trap, by Irving Shulman
Not Rated
drama
Scandal Sheet
The Dark Page, by Samuel Fuller
Not Rated
drama, film-noir
Scaramouche
Scaramouche : a romance of the French Revolution, by Rafael Sabatini
Approved
adventure, drama, romance
The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us, by Rachel Carson
Approved
documentary
Sea Tiger
"Island Freighter" [novella], by Charles Yerkow.  In:  Short Stories, v104, #5, June 25, 1948.
Approved
crime, drama
She Wolf
"La Lupa (The She-Wolf)" [short story], by Giovanni Verga.  In:  Modern Italian Short Stories, Marc Slonim ed., and The She-Wolf, and Other Stories. Not Rated foreign language (Italian), drama
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" [short story], by Ernest Hemingway.  In:  The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, and The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
Approved
adventure, drama, romance
Stars and Stripes Forever
Marching Along : recollections of men, women and music, by John Philip Sousa
Not Rated
biography, music
Sudden Fear
Sudden Fear, by Edna Sherry
Not Rated
film-noir, horror, thriller
Thunder in the East
The Rage of the Vulture, by Alan Moorehead
Approved
drama
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
The Treasure of Franchard, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Approved
adventure, western
Trent's Last Case
Trent's Last Case, by E.C. Bentley
Approved
mystery








Unnatural
Alraune, by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Not Rated
foreign language (German), science fiction
Vasili's Return
Harvest : a novel in three parts, by Galina Nikolaeva
Not Rated
foreign language (Russian), drama
Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie
I Heard Them Sing, by Ferdinand Reyher
Approved
drama
Way of a Gaucho
Way of a Gaucho, by Herbert Childs
Not Rated
western
The Wild Heart
Gone to Earth, by Mary Webb
Not Rated
drama, romance
The Woman's Angle
Three Cups of Coffee, by Ruth Feiner
Not Rated
drama, romance
The World in His Arms
The World in his Arms, by Rex Beach
Not Rated
action, adventure, history
Yukon Gold
The Gold Hunters : a story of life and adventure in the Hudson Bay wilds, by James Oliver Curwood
Approved
adventure, western


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