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  • Movies based on Plays – II

    Movies based on Plays – II

    Here is the second installment of my series of articles on movies based on plays. I suggest that my readers read the first part of this series, where I cover the pros and cons of adapting a play to the big screen or TV. The Letter (1940) This adaptation of ‘The Letter,’ a play by… Read more

  • Rope(1948) vs. Compulsion(1959)

    Rope(1948) vs. Compulsion(1959)

    Today, let’s look at two very different movies that have a common thread. Both of them are inspired on the same gruesome unimaginable real life crime, committed by two teens, Leopold(19) and Loeb(18) in May 1924. Both young men came from affluent families and were heavily influenced by the concept of Friedrich Nietsche’s superman. To… Read more