What's the most remade film?
ivan audouin
>Does anyone which film has been remade the greatest number of times? For this,
>you can include various adaptations of the same original story -- e.g.
>the various versions of MACBETH, or of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, etc. Thanks!
I don't know the answer, but how about "Mutiny on the Bounty", off hand I
would say there are 5 versions (Someone will probably correct me).But
they're all the same movie. If you include "adaptations" as you put it
then the answer is open to interpretation. For example "Romeo and Juliet"
has been the basis for a multitude of adaptations such as "West Side Story".
or how about popular folklore - eg. Robin Hood.
This thread could go in many directions.
Paul Edward Freitag
Dracula's been done at least 6 times.. 1919, 1931, 1957, 1973, 1979 and
1992..
Richard Quatrain
I heard they were more than 40 movies about Joan of Arc.
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David Robert Jose Roy
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> I heard they were more than 40 movies about Joan of Arc.
Yeah, but that ain't the same. They're movies about the same
character, not remakes of the same story.
David
Chopped Liver
Michael <MKE...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> wrote:
>Does anyone which film has been remade the greatest number of times? For this,
>you can include various adaptations of the same original story -- e.g.
>the various versions of MACBETH, or of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, etc. Thanks!
There sure seem to be a lot of versions of The Three Musketeers and many
variations on the Robin Hood story, including one from Disney. And don't
forget Frankenstien.
The Rink
>about 5-6 starting with Douglas Fairbanks, and going through Gene Kelly,
>Michael York, and Chris O'Donnell, with a few cheepys thrown in.
>How could there have been 35?
I don't know about Musketeer movies, but I do know that in the pre-sound
era, stories like these were remade many many times. If memory serves,
there were a good six or seven silent versions of "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame". I know of a couple other stories that were remade many times in
the silent era, but my mind has gone blank.
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>Hyde made by the time the Barrymore vcersion came out in 1920. Add to
>that the March and Tracy versions and the Michael Caine tv version. Then
>there's semi versions like Jeckyl and Hyde together again Dr. Heckle and
>Sister Jive, that one with tony perkins where he's also Jack the Ripper,
>and even the Nutty Professor.
You forgot the Bugs Bunny cartoon. :-)
mathias thallmayer
"Hound Of The Baskervilles" has been filmed over 130 times.
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Jim Ortlieb
><as...@pomona.claremont.edu> writes:
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>>In article <16F72DF6...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, MKE...@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Michael) writes:
>>>Does anyone which film has been remade the greatest number of times? For this,
>>>you can include various adaptations of the same original story -- e.g.
>>>the various versions of MACBETH, or of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, etc. Thanks!
>
>cartoons, etc.
Ok. TIMEOUT!! I'm basically tired with all these people just
tossing these numbers here. No more numbers. List every version you can,
and we'll count for you.
Cinderella... I'll start you off. Disney 1930's. That's one.
You can name your 93 others.
130 Hound of the Baskervilles? Ok. Name them all, we'll tally.
I've got the 6 versions of Dracula. If you can name any others,
then go ahead. But, enough with the random numbers.
Cause if we're just gonna do that..... then --
"Life in Pictures" was re-done about 10 million times, on every cave wall
in the Pre-historic age. :-)
Sorry, I just had to do it. This was getting absurd. If you can name
versions, then go ahead. Naming 25 James Bond films doesn't count. A
remake has the same plot line as the original, or it's a dfferent story,
and hence NOT a remake.
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Paul Edward Freitag
Erm, sorry, but if you look carefully at the question, CINDERELLA, DR.
JECKYLL, FRANKENSTEIN, THREE MUSKETEERS and just about everything else named
doesn't qualify. These were all adaptions of the books, not remakes of a
previous film.
The question is: Which FILM has been REMADE the most times?
At the moment, i can't think of any film that was remade more than once.
Paul Freitag
Scott Padulsky
I could be wrong but I believe A Star is Born was remade twice (total
of three films).
Scott
Kenneth Almquist
> I could be wrong but I believe A Star is Born was remade twice (total
> of three films).
"A Star is Born" (1937) is in turn a remake of "What Price Hollywood?".
Kenneth Almquist
Jonathan M. Lord
Price Hollywood? tonight (3/21/94) on the American Movie Classics cable
channel.
JL
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John R Groch
Well, there's at least one, and it's a biggie: A STAR IS BORN. 1937
(Janet Gaynor, Fredric March), 1954 (Judy Garland, James Mason), 1977(?)
(Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristopherson, who's name I'm probably
misspelling). Now, the 1937 version was inspired by a story in The
Saturday Evening Post, but that's a bit different than a full-blown
literary adaptation. And other than that, you've got me; nice question
though.
And if this is the Paul Freitag who's Brown Class of '84: fancy meeting
you here!
John Groch
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John R Groch
>In article <2malkf...@uwm.edu> de...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul Edward Freitag) writes:
>>The question is: Which FILM has been REMADE the most times?
>>At the moment, i can't think of any film that was remade more than once.
>
I lied, I think; one other comes to mind. Wasn't there a recent
made-for-tv (or perhaps made-for-cable) version of STAGECOACH, maybe
starring Willie Nelson? That would make it the second remake, following
the 1962(?) version with Bing Crosby and Mannix. I don't think the film
is an adaptation of anything, but I could be wrong (which would be rather
humiliating, since I teach the original with some regularity).
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Kenneth W. Crist Jr.
: In article <18...@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, John R Groch <gro...@pitt.edu> wrote:
: >In article <2malkf...@uwm.edu> de...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul Edward Freitag) writes:
: >>The question is: Which FILM has been REMADE the most times?
: >>
: >>At the moment, i can't think of any film that was remade more than once.
Wouldn't it have to be "The Three Musketeers?" I think Maltin wrote
in one of his books that it had been made 14 times (prior to the most
recent one), and even counting Donner's two films as one, there are several
versions of the film out there.
Ken Crist
kayu...@cfar.umd.edu