Quiz Monkey
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| Q: Who wrote the screenplay(s) to | A: | |
| What's New, Pussycat? |
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Woody Allen |
| The Madness of King George (based on his own stage play The Madness of George III) |
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Alan Bennett |
| Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter |
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Robert Bolt |
| The Company of Wolves (1984) – along with Neil Jordan, who also directed; based on her short story of the same title |
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Angela Carter |
| Brief Encounter (1945 – based on his 1936 one–act play Still Life) |
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Noël Coward |
| Westworld (1973 – also directed) |
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Michael Crichton |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral |
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Richard Curtis |
| You Only Live Twice (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) |
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Roald Dahl |
| Silkwood (1983), When Harry Met Sally (1989); also co–wrote Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); died in 2012, aged 71 |
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Nora Ephron |
| Gosford Park (Best Original Screenplay Oscar, 2002) |
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Julian (Lord) Fellowes |
| Gone Girl (2015) – based on her own novel |
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Gillian Flynn |
| Won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President's Men (1976); also wrote the screenplays for Marathon Man (1974), Magic (1978) and The Princess Bride (1987) – all based on his novels; died in 2018, aged 87 |
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William Goldman |
| The Third Man (and later a novelette based on it) |
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Graham Greene |
| Kes (1969 – based on his novel A Kestrel for a Knave) |
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Barry Hines |
| Citizen Kane (Orson Welles given co–credit) |
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Joseph K. Mankiewicz |
| The Misfits (1961 – the last completed film for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe) |
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Arthur Miller |
| Tom Jones (1963) |
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John Osborne |
| The Servant (1963 – based on the novel by Robin Maugham); The Go–Between (1970); Oscar–nominated for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) |
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Harold Pinter |
| Gorky Park |
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Dennis Potter |
| Yentl (co–writer with Barbra Streisand) |
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Jack Rosenthal |
| The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove, The Cincinnati Kid, Barbarella, Easy Rider (died 1995) |
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Terry Southern |
| The Wicker Man, Frenzy, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun |
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Anthony Shaffer |
| Rocky I – V, and Rocky Balboa |
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Sylvester Stallone |
| True Romance, Natural Born Killers |
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Quentin Tarantino |
| Sense and Sensibility (won an Oscar for her adaptation) |
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Emma Thompson |
| Wrote the first draft of the script for King Kong (December 1931 – January 1932), based on his idea; but died on 10 February 1932, aged 56 (of previously undiagnosed diabetes); the film was released in March 1933 |
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Edgar Wallace |
| Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving, Torn Curtain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
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Keith Waterhouse |
| Chariots of Fire |
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Colin Welland |
| My Little Chickadee (1940): co–written by W. C. Fields and (also starred) |
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Mae West |
| Q: Which film was based on … | A: | |
| Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness |
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Apocalypse Now |
| Dick King–Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep–Pig (published in the USA as Babe the Gallant Pig) |
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Babe |
| Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
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Blade Runner |
| Noel Coward's one–act play Still Life |
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Brief Encounter |
| the stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's |
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Casablanca |
| the book Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella |
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Field of Dreams |
| War memoirs entitled The Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
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Lawrence of Arabia |
| Laurence van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower |
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Merry Xmas Mr. Lawrence |
| Agatha Christie's 4:05 from Paddington |
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Murder, She Said |
| Kurosawa film (1954) on which The Magnificent Seven (1960) was based |
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The Seven Samurai |
| 1976 film based on Cinderella (Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven) |
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The Slipper and the Rose |
| Kurosawa film based on Shakespeare's Macbeth (English title) |
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Throne of Blood |
| Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day |
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Topkapi |
| Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
| John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos |
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Village of the Damned |
© Haydn Thompson 2017–21