Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a favourite film of mine. And surprisingly, the original and the two remakes I've seen are all great, albeit in different ways. Don Siegel (1958), Philip Kaufman (1978) and Abel Ferrara (1993).
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There are at least three film versions of JB Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ dating back from an excellent 1954 adaptation with the wonderful Alastair Sim in the title role to the most recent in 2018 that I haven’t seen yet. There was a 2015 BBC Films production starring David Thewlis as the Inspector which is also superb. The play was on my school department’s GCSE syllabus so I watched it at least once annually for several years and never tired of it.
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Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View PostInvasion of the Body Snatchers is a favourite film of mine. And surprisingly, the original and the two remakes I've seen are all great, albeit in different ways. Don Siegel (1958), Philip Kaufman (1978) and Abel Ferrara (1993).
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His Girl Friday is one of the great screwball comedies, but it was a remake of the more sober The Front Page from 1931. His Girl Friday was later remade in the 1970s with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (with the Hildy character reverting to a man, is in the original play/film), and as Switching Channels around 1987 with Kathleen Turner and Burt Reynolds, and set in a network news channel rather than in a newspaper. I wonder whether there could be a remake today; I rather think so.
The Maltese Falcon was also filmed in 1931 and again a few years later (1935?) before the John Huston version became a hit.
Ben Hur was one reeler in 1907, a huge hit as a silent movie in the 1920s, and even a bigger hit in the 1950s remake with Charlton Heston. Who knows whether the recent remake killed off the future of Ben Hur?
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