Classic Literature adopted for films or TV

• BBC Costume Dramas:
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• Jane Austen
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• Mansfield Park (1999) by Jane Austen, starring Hugh Bonneville, Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller.
• Madame Bovary (BBC - 2000) by Gustave Flaubert, starring Hugh Bonneville, Frances O'Connor.
• The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall [BBC - 1996] by Anne Bronte, starring Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy.
• In Search Of The Brontes: Excellent BBC production, but not yet out on Video/DVD. Starring Patrick Malahide as Patrick Brontë and Victoria Hamilton as Charlotte Brontë.
• Middlemarch by George Eliot (BBC - 1993), starring Ian Driver, Juliet Aubrey.
• Jane Eyre by Charlottte Bronte (BBC - 1983), starring Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton.
• The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot (BBC - 1996), starring Emily Watson, Ifan Meredith.
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (BBC - 1995), starring Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds.
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (BBC - 1981), starring Elizabeth Benson, Marjorie Bland.
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (BBC - 1995), starring Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle.
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (BBC - ca. early 1980s), starring Peter Firth, Googie Withers.
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (BBC - 1998), starring Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes.
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (BBC - 1994), starring Richard E. Grant, Alan Bates, Bob Peck.
• Great Expectations (BBC - ca. late 1990s) by Charles Dickens , starring Ioan Gruffudd, Gabriel Thomson.
• The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (BBC - 1988), starring Joan Plowright, Paul McGann, Rupert Fraseer, and Alison Steadman.
• Jane Austen Box Set (BBC set from 1972).
• Cold Comfort Farm (BBC - 1971) by Stella Gibbons, starring Alastair Sim.
• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (BBC - 2001), starring David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyan.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (BBC - 1978), starring Alan Bates, Stallybrass.
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998) by Thomas Hardy starring Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng.
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky - the complete miniseries (BBC - 1982), starring John Hurt.
• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (BBC - 2002).
• Emma by Jane Austen (Hollywood version - 1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette. Excelent.
• Emma by Jane Austen (the 1996 ITV Production) , starring Kate Beckinsale.
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (BBC - 1981), starring Elizabeth Benson, Marjorie Bland.
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1995), starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett, Hugh Grant.
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (BBC - 1995), starring Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle.
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, starring Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul.
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (BBC), starring Peter Firth, Googie Withers.
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (BBC - 1995), starring Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds.
• Jane Austen Box Set (BBC set from 1972).
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• Charles Dickens
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• A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (2001), starring James Wilby, John Mills. Dickens' greatest.
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1991), starring Chris Sarandon and Alice Krige.
• Great Expectations (1946) by Charles Dickens , starring John Mills, Jean Simmons (dir. David Lean).
• Great Expectations (BBC late 1990s) by Charles Dickens, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Gabriel Thomson.
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1997), Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert De Niro.
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1974), starring Michael York, Sarah Miles.
• Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (1994), starring Philip Franks, Knight Mantell,
• Our Mutual Friend (BBC) by Charles Dickens (1998), starring Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes.
• The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (1994), starring Peter Ustinov, James Fox.
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (BBC - 1994), starring Richard E. Grant, Alan Bates, Bob Peck.
• Little Dorrit - Part 1 by Charles Dickens (1990), starring Sarah Pickering, Rosalie Crutchley.
• The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1982), starring Roger Rees.
• The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (2001), starring James D'Arcy, Charles Dance, Sophia Myles.
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1999), starring Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith.
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (2000).
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1997), starring Richard Dreyfuss, Elijah Wood.
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1982), starring George C. Scott, Tim Curry.
• Oliver by Charles Dickens (1968 musical), starrng Mark Lester, Jack Wilde, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed.
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1948), starring Alec Guiness, Robert Newton (dir. David Lean).
• The Old Curiousity Shop by Charles Dickens (1994), starring Peter Ustinov, James Fox.
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), adaptation of the Charles Dickens book, starring Michael Caine.
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• The Brontes
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• The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (BBC - 1996), starring Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy.
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1992), starring Juliet Binoche and Ralph Fiennes.
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1998), starring Orla Brady, Robert Cavanah.
• Jane Eyre - Parts 1 and 2 by Charlottte Bronte (BBC - 1983), starring Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton.
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1997), starring Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds.
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1996), starring William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg (Franco Zeffirelli).
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1944), starring Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine.
• In Search Of The Brontes: A BBC production recently shown on British TV. Excellent, but not yet out on Video/DVD. Starring Patrick Malahide as Patrick Brontë and Victoria Hamilton as Charlotte Brontë.
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• Thomas Hardy
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• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998) - BBC production starring Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng.
• Tess (1980) starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, Directed by Roman Polanski.
• Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terrance Stamp.
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1998) starring Nathanial Parker, Nigel Terry, Jonathan Firth.
• Jude (1996), based on Jude The Obscure, starring Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet.
• Jude the Obscure (1971) starring Robert Powell.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003), starring Ciaran Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Jodhi May.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) starring Alan Bates
• The Claim (2000) based on Mayor/Casterbridge, starring Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski.
• The Return of the Native (1994) starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Clive Owen.
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• The Others
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• A Passage To India by E.M. Forster (1985) starring Judy Davis, Sir Alec Guiness, Peggy Ashcroft.
• Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (1992), Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham Carter.
• Anna Karenina (1997) by Leo Tolstoy, starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean.
• Remains of the Day (1993) by Kazuo Ishiguro, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, James Fox, Christopher Reeve. One of my all-time favourite films whcih I have on DVD.
• Howard’s End by E. M. Forster (1992), starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Prunella Scales. Another of my favourite films.
• Madame Bovary (BBC - 2000) by Gustave Flaubert, starring Hugh Bonneville, Frances O'Connor.
• A Room With A View by E. M. Forster (1986), Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench.
• Maurice (1987) by E. M. Forster, starring James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant.
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1982), starring Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews.
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1940 - Hitchcock), starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine.
• Dangerous Liaisons (based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses) by Choderlos de Laclos (1988), starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves.
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray , starring Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker.
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1996), starring Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig.
• Wives And Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (1999), starring Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson.
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (2002), starring John Carlisle, Rupert Graves.
• The Forsyte Saga - Series 2 - To Let (2003), starring Damian Lewis, Ben Miles.
• Madame Bovary (1991), by Gustave Flaubert, starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer.
• Madame Bovary (1976), by Gustave Flaubert, starring Tom Conti, Francesca Annis.
• Cold Comfort Farm (1996) by Stella Gibbons, Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellern.
• Cold Comfort Farm (BBC - 1971) by Stella Gibbons, starring Alastair Sim.
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1945), starring George Sanders, a favourite book.
• The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (2002), starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth.
• The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (BBC - 1988), starring Joan Plowright, Paul McGann, Rupert Fraser, and Alison Steadman.
• The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1952), starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Rutherford ("A Handbag ?").
• An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1999), starring Rupert Everett, Cate Balnchett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam.
• Wilde (1997), starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law.
• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (BBC - 2001), starring David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyan.
• War And Peace (1956) by Leo Tolstoy, starring Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn.
• War And Peace (BBC - 2001) by Leo Tolstoy, starring Anthony Hopkins.
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2000), starring Stephen Dillane, Helen McCrory (Channel Four TV).
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1978), starring Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter.
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1948), starring Vivian Leigh, Ralph Richardson.
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1998), starring Vanessa Redgrave, Rupert Graves, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen. The film "The Hours" (Nicole Kidman) was also loosely based on the same book.
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1991), starring Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham.
• The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas (1976), starring Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (2002), starring James Caviezel, Guy Pearce.
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Boxed Set (1999), starring Richard E. Grant.
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1939), starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller.
• My Fair Lady (based on Pygmalion) by George Bernard Shaw (1964), Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.
• Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1998), starring Jeremy Irons.
• Lolita by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1962), starring James Mason.
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1999), starring Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Rea, Julianne Moore.
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1998), starring Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes.
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1998), starring Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng.
• Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1998), starring Nathaniel Parker, Nigel Terry.
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1996), starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich.
• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1997), starring Helena Bonham-Carter, Linus Roache.
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky - the complete miniseries (BBC - 1982), starring John Hurt.
• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (BBC - 2002).
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• Agatha Christie:
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• Murder On The Orient Express (1974), starring Albert Finney.
• Death on the Nile (1978), starring Peter Ustinov.
• Poirot - Death on the Nile, starring David Suchet.
• The Mirror Crack'd (1980), starring Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis.
• Evil Under The Sun (1982), starring Peter Ustinov.
• Sparkling Cyanide (1983), starring Anthony Andrews.
• Appointment with Death (1988), starring Peter Ustinov.
• Murder with Mirrors (1985), starring Helen Hayes, Bette Davis.
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957), starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
• Seven Dials Mystery (1981), starring Cheryl Campbell.
• And Then There Were None (1945) (Ten Little N*ggers), starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston.
• Ten Little Indians (1965), (Ten Little N*ggers) starring Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton.
• Murder She Said (1962), starring Margaret Rutherford. 

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