Two for One

<p>Source Material: Louisa May Alcott's semi-autobiographical novel of four sisters growing into womanhood. First published in 1868, and here reimagined by three different eras of Hollywood.</p>

<p>Source Material: The Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novels about the disastrous voyage of an 18th century British warship. The novels were themselves based on the infamous real-world mutiny.</p>

<p>Source Material: George Romero's screenplay for 1978's influential zombie movie Dawn of the Dead, the second installment in a franchise that began a decade prior with Night of the Living Dead.</p>

<p>Source Material: The American novelist Evan Hunter's novel King's Ransom, though directors Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee largely use the book as a starting point for their explorations of social problems.</p>

<p>Another year, another 20+ movies for our heroic podcast hosts.</p>

<p>Source Material: Charles Portis's 1968 novel, in which a young girl searches for a man with "true grit" to pursue her father's killer.</p>

<p>Source Material: Paul Gallico's 1969 novel. A group of passengers on an ocean liner struggles to reach safety after the ship is capsized by a massive wave.</p>

<p>Source Material: Ronald Bass's original screenplay for the 1997 romantic comedy.</p>

<p>Source Material: The 1950 Georges Arnaud novel, in which four men are hired to transport nitroglycerin to the site of an oil well fire.</p>

<p>Source Material: William Shakespeare's renowned tragedy. Both films adhere closely to the Bard's text.</p>

<p>Source Material: H. G. Wells' 1895 novella The Time Machine, a contemplation of humanity's future in a world of accelerating technological innovation and economic inequality.</p>

<p>Source Material: Hungarian-born playwright Miklós László's Parfumerie, a tale of two coworkers who fall in love via the written word, despite not being able to stand each other in real life.</p>

<p>Source Material: The 1973 body swapper by Mary Rodgers, who also wrote the screenplay for the 1976 adaptation.</p>

<p>Source Material: Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel, in which detective Philip Marlowe investigates an apparently simple case of blackmail, but discovers a bottomless well of drugs, lies, sex, and murder.</p>

<p>Source Material: John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There?, adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as a fifties monster movie and later remade more faithfully by horror icon John Carpenter.</p>