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The Onion Field

January 18, 2022

How the LAPD screwed over its own in the case that made Joseph Wambaugh want to be a writer instead.

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[Christmas at] Candleshoe

December 21, 2021

Not only does the book have very little to do with its movie adaptation, it's not even set at Christmas!

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Circle of Friends

November 16, 2021

How can a movie starring Minnie Driver, Colin Firth, Saffron Burrows, and Alan Cumming have become obscure?

[A] Billion[s] For Boris

October 19, 2021

A sequel to Freaky Friday made into a fairly obscure movie? Exactly in the column's wheelhouse.

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The Snake Pit

September 21, 2021

Olivia De Havilland's version is much more Freudian than the original book and less powerful.

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Jamaica Inn

August 17, 2021

One of three times Hitchcock adapted Du Maurier and clearly the most obscure.

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Daddy Long Legs/Curly Top

July 20, 2021

A novel adapted three forgettable times!

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Jane of Lantern Hill/Lantern Hill

June 15, 2021

L.M. Montgomery's last heroine, badly interpreted for Canadian television.

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The Apple Dumpling Gang

May 18, 2021

A surprisingly pleasant little novel that became a Saturday afternoon movie staple.

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The G-String Murders/Lady of Burlesque

April 20, 2021

Barbara Stanwyck is Absolutely Not Gypsy Rose Lee in this adaptation of a lighthearted murder mystery.