Alfred Hitchcock film Under Capricorn, which was preceeded by Rope, was adapted to the screen by which person?
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Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel "Under Capricorn" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted to the screen by Hume Cronyn. This was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor, and like the preceding color film "Rope" (1948), it also featured 10-minute takes.
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Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton, adapted by Hume Cronyn and with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents.
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The Thin Line (novel) The Thin Line, later re-issued as "Murder, My Love", is a 1951 crime novel by the British-Lebanese author Edward Atiyah. It was filmed twice, first as "The Stranger Within a Woman" by Naruse Mikio, 1966, and then by Claude Chabrol, as "Just Before Nightfall", 1971.
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Brighton Rock (1947 film) Brighton Rock is a 1947 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as the innocent girl he marries, and Hermione Baddeley as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed. The film was adapted from the 1938 novel "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions. It was later released in the United States under the title "Young Scarface".
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Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( ; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor whose performances in 1940s films noir such as "The Maltese Falcon", "Casablanca", and "The Big Sleep" earned him status as a cultural icon.
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The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, the two proceeding to search the train for clues to the old lady's disappearance.
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Street Girl Street Girl is a 1929 pre-Code musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Betty Compson, John Harron and Jack Oakie. It was adapted by Jane Murfin from "The Viennese Charmer", a short story by William Carey Wonderly. While it was the first film made by RKO Radio Pictures, its opening was delayed until after "Syncopation", making it RKO's second release. It was very successful at the box office, accounting for almost half of RKO's profits for the entire year.
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Stanley Lupino Stanley Lupino (15 June 1893 – 10 June 1942) was an English actor, dancer, singer, librettist, director and short story writer, who began life as Stanley Richard Lupino Hook. During the 1930s, Lupino appeared in a successful series of musical comedy films, often based on his already popular stage shows.
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The Silver King (play) The Silver King is an 1882 melodramatic play, by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman. It was "so well known that criticism is superfluous" and played to record-breaking audiences. The play was adapted for screen in the 1929 silent film production "The Silver King" directed by T. Hayes Hunter. The play featured stars such as Mary Pickford.
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Polly of the Circus (1932 film) Polly of the Circus is a 1932 American Pre-Code MGM drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable.
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Rain or Shine (film) Rain or Shine is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Capra and starring Joe Cook and Louise Fazenda. The film was adapted from a hit Broadway musical of the same name and was originally planned as a full-scale musical. Due to the public backlash against musical films (beginning in the latter part of the summer of 1930), all musical numbers were discarded before release. This move proved to be prudent as the film was a box office success, continuing the streak of hits Capra directed for the young Columbia Pictures studio.
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Sealed Cargo Sealed Cargo is a 1951 American war film about a fisherman, played by Dana Andrews, who gets tangled up with Nazis and their U-boats. It was based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
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Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris", in which he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's "The Marriage Circle"; "The Sheik" with Rudolph Valentino; "Morocco" with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and "A Star Is Born" with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Front Page" in 1931.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929 film) The Trial of Mary Dugan is a 1929 American Pre-Code film produced and distributed by MGM and starring Norma Shearer. The film is based on the 1927 Broadway stage play "The Trial of Mary Dugan" by Bayard Veiller, who also directed this film. On stage the play had starred Ann Harding (in Shearer's role), who would come to Hollywood a few years later at the beginning of talkies. This was Veiller's first and only sound film directorial effort as he had directed several silent films before 1922.
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The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American film noir psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, from a screenplay by Mel Dinelli based on Ethel Lina White's novel "Some Must Watch" (1933). The novel was adapted for a radio production starring Helen Hayes before reaching the screen.
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The Man Who Came Back (1931 film) The Man Who Came Back is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play by Jules Eckert Goodman.
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Anybody's Woman Anybody's Woman is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and written by Zoe Akins, Doris Anderson and Gouverneur Morris. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntley Gordon, Virginia Hammond, Tom Patricola and Juliette Compton. The film was released on August 15, 1930, by Paramount Pictures.
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Saint Joan (film) Saint Joan (also called Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan) is a 1957 British-American film adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title about the life of Joan of Arc. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told. At the end of the flashback, the film then returns to the play's final scene, which then continues through to the end.
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Cape Forlorn Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter. It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made "Le cap perdu" and "Menschen im Käfig".
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The Red Badge of Courage (film) The Red Badge of Courage is a 1951 war film made by MGM. Directed by John Huston, it was produced by Gottfried Reinhardt with Dore Schary as executive producer. The screenplay is by John Huston, adapted by Albert Band from Stephen Crane's novel of the same name. The cinematography is by Harold Rosson, and the music score by Bronislau Kaper. The making of this film is the subject of Lillian Ross's 1952 book "Picture", originally in "The New Yorker".
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Downhill (1927 film) Downhill is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine, and Isabel Jeans, and based on the play "Down Hill" by Novello and Constance Collier. The film was made by Gainsborough Pictures at their Islington studios. The film is Hitchcock's fifth film as director. The American alternative title for this film was When Boys Leave Home.
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All Fall Down (film) All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel "All Fall Down" (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, the author of "Midnight Cowboy" (1965). It was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by playwright William Inge and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Upon its release, the film was a minor box-office hit. Together with her performance in Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Angela Lansbury (who played a destructively manipulative mother in both films) won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.