| Movie title |
Book title & author |
MPAA Rating |
Genres |
The 3 Worlds of
Gulliver
|
Gulliver's Travels, by
Jonathan Swift
|
Approved
|
adventure,
animation, family, fantasy
|
The 3rd Voice
|
All the Way, by Charles
Williams
|
Not
Rated
|
crime, thriller,
drama
|
5 Branded Women
|
Five Branded Women, by Ugo
Pirro
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, war
|
The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
by Mark Twain
|
G
|
adventure,
drama, family
|
All the Fine
Young Cannibals
|
The Bixby Girls, by
Rosamond Marshall
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, romance
|
The Avenger
|
The Avenger, by Edgar
Wallace
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), crime, horror, mystery
|
The Barbarians
[also known as Rivak the Barbarian]
|
The Barbarians, by F. Van
Wyck Mason
|
Not
Rated
|
adventure, war
|
Because They're
Young
|
Harrison High, by John
Farris
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Bell'Antonio
|
Antonio, the Great Lover,
by Vitaliano Brancati, also published as Bell'Antonio
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(Italian), drama
|
Beyond the
Curtain
|
Thunder Above, by A.J.
Wallis and Charles F. Blair, Jr.
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Black Cross
[also known as Krzyzacy]
|
The Teutonic Knights, by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(Polish), drama, adventure, war
|
Blood and Roses
|
Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le
Fanu
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), horror
|
Brainwashed
[also known as Three Moves to Freedom]
|
Schachnovelle, by Stefan
Zweig. Also published as The Royal Game
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), drama
|
The Bramble Bush
|
The Bramble Bush, by
Charles Mergendahl
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
A Breath of
Scandal
|
Olympia [play], by Ferenc
Molnár
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, comedy,
romance
|
Butterfield 8
|
Butterfield 8, by John
O'Hara
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Can-Can
|
Can-Can [play], by Abe
Burrows
|
Not
Rated
|
musical, comedy,
romance
|
Cash McCall
|
Cash McCall, by Cameron
Hawley
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, romance
|
Cimarron
|
Cimarron, by Edna Ferber
|
Approved
|
western, drama
|
The Clue of the
New Pin
|
The Clue of the New Pin, by
Edgar Wallace
|
Not
Rated
|
crime
|
The Clue of the
Twisted Candle
|
The Clue of the Twisted Candle,
by Edgar Wallace
|
Not
Rated
|
crime
|
The Dark at the
Top of the Stairs
|
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
[play], by William Inge
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Day They
Robbed the Bank of England
|
The Day They Robbed the Bank of
England, by John Brophy
|
Approved
|
crime, drama
|
Doctor in Love
|
Doctor in Love, by Richard
Gordon
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
Elmer Gantry
|
Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair
Lewis
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Entertainer
|
The Entertainer [play], by
John Osborne
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Exodus
|
Exodus, by Leon Uris
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, war,
action
|
Expresso Bongo
|
Expresso Bongo [play], by
Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Fall of the
House of Usher
|
The Fall of the
House of Usher [short story], by Edgar Allan Poe.
In: Complete
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and others.
|
Not
Rated
|
horror
|
Faust
|
Faust [play], by
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), drama, fantasy
|
First Spaceship
on Venus
|
The Astronauts, by
Stanislaw Lem
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), science fiction
|
Flaming Star
|
Flaming Lance : a novel of the West,
by Clair Huffaker
|
Not
Rated
|
western
|
Freckles
|
Freckles, by Gene
Stratton-Porter
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, western
|
From the Terrace
|
From the Terrace, by John
O'Hara
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Girl of the Night
|
The Call Girl : a social and
psychoanalytic study, by Harold Greenwald
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
| The Good Soldier
Schweik |
The Good Soldier: Schweik,
by Jaroslav Hasek |
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), comedy, drama
|
The Grass is
Greener
|
The Grass is Greener : a comedy in
two acts [play], by Hugh and Margaret Williams
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
Guns of the
Timberland
|
Guns of the Timberlands, by
Louis L'Amour
|
Not
Rated
|
western
|
Hell Bent for
Leather
|
Outlaw Marshal, by Ray Hogan
|
Approved
|
western
|
Hell is a City
|
Hell is a City, by Maurice
Procter
|
Not
Rated
|
crime, thriller,
drama
|
Heller in Pink
Tights
|
Heller with a Gun, by Louis
L'Amour
|
Not
Rated
|
adventure,
western, drama, romance
|
Home from the
Hill
|
Home from the Hill, by
William Humphrey
|
Approved
|
drama, adventure
|
House of Fright
|
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Not
Rated
|
horror
|
I Passed for
White
|
I Passed for White, by Mary
Hastings Bradley
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Ice Palace
|
Ice Palace, by Edna Ferber
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Iceman
Cometh [TV movie]
|
The Iceman Cometh [play],
by Eugene O'Neill
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Inherit the Wind
|
Inherit the Wind [play], by
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
|
PG
|
drama
|
Key Witness
|
Key Witness, by Frank Kane
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, mystery,
crime
|
Kidnapped
|
Kidnapped : the adventures
of David Balfour, by Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Not
Rated
|
family, drama,
adventure
|
The Lady with
the Dog
|
"The Lady with
the Dog" [short story], by Anton Chekhov. In: The Image of Chekhov : forty
stories in the order in which they were written, The Essential Tales of Chekhov,
and others
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(Russian), drama, romance
|
Le Trou [also
known as The Night Watch]
|
The Break, by José
Giovanni
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), crime, drama, thriller
|
Let No Man Write
My Epitaph
|
Let No Man Write My Epitaph,
by William Motley
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Lost World
|
The Lost World, by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
|
Not
Rated
|
adventure,
science fiction
|
Macbeth [TV
movie]
|
Macbeth [play], by William
Shakespeare
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Make Mine Mink
|
Breath of Spring : a comedy in
three acts [play], by Peter Coke
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
Malaga [also
known as Moment of Danger (U.K. title)]
|
Scent of Danger, by Donald
MacKenzie
|
Not
Rated
|
crime, drama
|
Man on a String
|
My Ten Years as a Counterspy : as
told to Charles Samuels, by Boris Morros
|
Not
Rated
|
action, drama,
crime, thriller
|
The Man with the
Green Carnation [also known as The Trials of Oscar Wilde]
|
The Stringed Lute [play],
by John Furnell and The
Trials of Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Midnight Lace
|
Matilda Shouted Fire
[play], by Janet Green
|
Not
Rated
|
thriller, mystery
|
The Millionairess
|
The Millionairess [play],
by Bernard Shaw
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, drama
|
Moderato
Cantabile
|
Moderato Cantabile, by
Marguerite Duras
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), drama
|
The Mountain Road
|
The Mountain Road, by
Theodore Harold White
|
Not
Rated
|
war
|
Mrs. Miniver [TV
movie]
|
Mrs. Miniver, by Jan
Struther
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Murder, Inc.
|
Murder, Inc., the Story of "The
Syndicate,", by Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, crime
|
The Night
Fighters
|
A Terrible Beauty, by
Arthur Roth
|
Not
Rated
|
war (WWII), drama
|
Night of the Big
Heat [TV movie]
|
Night of the Big Heat, by
John Lymington
|
Not
Rated
|
science fiction
|
Once More, with
Feeling
|
Once More, with Feeling
[play], by Harry Kurnitz
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, drama,
romance
|
Oscar Wilde
|
Oscar Wilde [play], by
Leslie and Sewell Stokes
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Peter Pan
|
Peter Pan [play], by J.M.
Barrie
|
Not
Rated
|
family, musical,
fantasy
|
Please Don't Eat
the Daisies
|
Please Don't Eat the Daisies,
by Jean Kerr
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, family,
musical
|
Pollyanna
|
Pollyanna, by Eleanor H.
Porter
|
G
|
family, comedy,
drama
|
Portrait in Black
|
Portrait in Black [play],
by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Psycho
|
Psycho, by Robert Bloch
|
R
(1984)
|
horror, thriller
|
Purple Noon
[also known as Plein Soleil, and Lust for Evil]
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley, by
Patricia Highsmith
|
PG-13
|
crime, thriller,
drama
|
The Pusher
|
The Pusher : an 87th Precinct
mystery, by Evan Hunter writing as Ed McBain
|
Not
Rated
|
crime, drama
|
The Rat Race
|
The Rat Race [play], by
Garson Kanin
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, drama,
romance
|
The Red Circle
|
The Crimson Circle, by
Edgar Wallace
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), thriller, crime
|
The Risk
|
A Sort of Traitors, by
Nigel Balchin
|
Not
Rated
|
science fiction,
thriller, drama
|
Saturday Night
and Sunday Morning
|
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,
by Alan Sillitoe
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
School for
Scoundrels or How to Win Without Actually Cheating!
|
- The
Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship; or, The Art of Winning Games
Without Actually Cheating, by Stephen Potter
- Some
Notes on Lifemanship; with a summary of recent researches in
gamesmanship, by Stephen Potter
- One-upmanship:
being some account of the activities and teaching of the Lifemanship
Correspondence College of One-upness and Gameslifemastery, by
Stephen Potter
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
The Secret of
the Purple Reef
|
The Secret of the Purple Reefs,
by Dorothy Cottrell. Serialized in 8 parts in The Saturday Evening Post December
6, 1952 - January 24, 1953. Also published as The Silent Reefs
|
Not
Rated
|
mystery, crime,
drama
|
Seven Thieves
|
Lions at the Kill, by Max
Catto
|
Not
Rated
|
crime
|
Seven Ways from
Sundown
|
Seven Ways from Sundown, by
Clair Huffaker
|
Approved
|
western
|
Shoot the Piano
Player
|
Down There, by David Goodis
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), drama, thriller, romance, crime
|
Sink the
Bismarck!
|
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck,
by C.S. Forester
|
Approved
|
action, drama,
war (WWII)
|
Sons and Lovers
|
Sons and Lovers, by D.H.
Lawrence
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Spartacus
|
Spartacus, by Howard Fast
|
PG-13
|
romance, war,
action, drama
|
The Spider's Web
|
Spider's Web [play], by
Agatha Christie
|
Not
Rated
|
mystery
|
Strangers When
We Meet
|
Strangers When We Meet, by
Evan Hunter
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Studs Lonigan
|
Studs Lonigan : a trilogy,
by James T. Farrell
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Subterraneans
|
The Subterraneans, by Jack
Kerouac
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Sundowners
|
The Sundowners, by Jon
Cleary
|
Approved
|
drama, adventure
|
Swiss Family
Robinson
|
The Swiss Family Robinson,
by Johann David Wyss
|
G
(1968)
|
adventure, family
|
Tall Story
|
Tall Story : a comedy in three acts
[play], by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, and The Homecoming Game by
Howard Nemerov
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
The Tempest [TV
movie]
|
The Tempest [play], by
William Shakespeare
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Terrible
People [also known as Hand of the Gallows]
|
The Terrible People, by
Edgar Wallace
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(German), crime, horror, drama
|
Tess of the
Storm Country
|
Tess of the Storm Country,
by Grace Miller White
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
The Time Machine
|
The Time Machine, by H.G.
Wells
|
G
|
science fiction,
adventure
|
Toby Tyler, or
Ten Weeks with a Circus
|
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a
Circus, by James Otis
|
Not
Rated
|
family, drama
|
Tunes of Glory
|
Tunes of Glory, by James
Kennaway
|
Not
Rated
|
drama
|
Two Women
|
Two Women, by Alberto
Moravia
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(Italian), drama, war (WWII)
|
The Unforgiven
|
The Unforgiven, by Alan Le
May. Also published in 7 parts as "Kiowa Moon", The Saturday Evening Post, March
16, 1957 - April 27, 1957.
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, western
|
Village of the
Damned
|
The Midwich Cuckoos, by
John Wyndham
|
Not
Rated
|
science fiction,
horror
|
Visit to a Small
Planet
|
Visit to a Small Planet
[play], by Gore Vidal
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, science
fiction
|
Wake Me When
It's Over
|
Wake Me When It's Over, by
Howard Singer
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy
|
Where the Boys
Are
|
Where the Boys Are, by
Glendon Swarthout
|
Not
Rated
|
comedy, drama
|
Wild River
|
Dunbar's Cove, by Borden
Deal and Mud on the Stars,
by William Bradford Huie
|
Approved
|
drama
|
Women Are Like
That
|
I'll Say She Does, by Peter
Cheyney
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), crime
|
The World of
Suzie Wong
|
The World of Suzie Wong, by
Richard Mason
|
Not
Rated
|
drama, romance
|
Zazie dans le
Métro
|
Zazie in the Metro, by
Raymond Queneau [also published as Zazie]
|
Not
Rated
|
foreign language
(French), comedy
|
