Which film, Scandalous John or Paul Revere, was based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
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Scandalous John Scandalous John is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Butler and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It stars Brian Keith and Alfonso Arau. The music was scored by Rod McKuen.
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Paul Revere Paul Revere ( ; December 21, 1734 O.S.May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" (1861).
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Peleg Wadsworth Peleg Wadsworth (May 6, 1748 – November 12, 1829) was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. He was also grandfather of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Misfortune (novel) Misfortune, is the 2005 debut novel by Wesley Stace. The "Victorian" novel revolves around a cross-dressing heir/heiress. The book was one of the "Washington Post"'s Books of the Year and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2005. It was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The author, better known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, recorded the traditional ballads and folk songs in the book on the The Love Hall Tryst's 2005 album "Songs of Misfortune".
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Amazing Grace (2006 film) Amazing Grace is a 2006 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn "Amazing Grace". The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.
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Xanadu (musical) Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 cult classic film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film "Down to Earth", a sequel to the 1941 movie "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", which was an adaptation of the play "Heaven Can Wait" by Harry Segall. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province where Khan establishes his pleasure garden in the poem.
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Evangeline (1913 film) Evangeline is a 1913 Canadian drama film based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. It is known as the first feature-length dramatic movie filmed in Canada, and it was very successful there and in the United States. Directed by Edward P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh, it was filmed in Nova Scotia. This film was the first of six features made between 1913 and 1914 by the Canadian Bioscope Company of Halifax. It is now considered to be a lost film.
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The Scandal (1923 film) The Scandal is a 1923 British-French silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Henry Victor, Edward O'Neill and Vanni Marcoux.
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Outre-Mer Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea is a prose collection which was the first major work by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The term "outre-mer" is French for "overseas".
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Without Benefit of Clergy Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Boris Karloff. It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. A print of the film still exists.
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The Cry of the Children The Cry of the Children is a 1912 American silent short drama film directed by George Nichols for the Thanhouser Company. The 29 minute picture, based on the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about child labor, stars Marie Eline, Ethel Wright, and James Cruze. The film was released on 30 April 1912. Controversially it featured real footage of child labor in factories. The film was selected into preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2011.
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Samuel Longfellow Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer.
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Paul Revere (disambiguation) Paul Revere (1734–1818), was an American activist and artisan.
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The Unwritten Law (1907 film) The Unwritten Law: A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Case is a 1907 film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, based on the true crime story of Harry Kendall Thaw's murder of Stanford White over his involvement with model and actress Evelyn Nesbit. Produced and released concurrently with Thaw's trial, its depiction of a recent sexual scandal led to widespread controversy, becoming "the first film in the United States to be widely construed as 'scandalous.'"
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The American (novel) The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family.
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It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage! It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage! is a song from the musical "Oklahoma!". It was first performed on Broadway by Joseph Buloff.
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Tender Comrade Tender Comrade (1943) is a black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war. The film starred Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, and Kim Hunter and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was later used by the HUAC as evidence of Dalton Trumbo spreading communist propaganda. Trumbo was subsequently blacklisted. The film's title comes from a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife" first published in "Songs of Travel and Other Verses" (1896).
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Scandal Sheet (1952 film) Scandal Sheet is a 1952 black-and-white film noir directed by Phil Karlson. The film is based on the novel "The Dark Page" by Samuel Fuller, who himself was a newspaper reporter before his career in film. The drama features Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed and John Derek.
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Pope John Paul II (film) Pope John Paul II is a 1984 American biopic drama television film based on the life of Karol Wojtyła, from his early days as an activist in Poland to his installation as Pope John Paul II. Written by Christopher Knopf and directed by Herbert Wise, the film stars Albert Finney, Caroline Bliss, Brian Cox, and John Forgeham. The film marks both Albert Finney's American television debut and the first script Finney had ever turned down upon initial reading.
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All the President's Men (film) All the President's Men is a 1976 American political thriller film about the Watergate scandal. Directed by Alan J. Pakula with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for "The Washington Post". The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.
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Pierrot (poem) "Pierrot" is a short poem written by the African-American author Langston Hughes. It was first published in the anthology "The Weary Blues" in 1926. In 30 lines, it describes contrasts the characters of Simple John, who adheres to an ethic of hard work and traditional virtues, and Pierrot, who leads a Dionysian and carefree life. In the end, Pierrot runs away with John's wife.
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Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet Sir John Bennett Piers, 6th Baronet, of Tristernagh Abbey, (1772 – 22 July 1845) was an Anglo-Irish baronet, now largely remembered for his part in a major scandal of the early 19th century and for being the subject of an early poem by John Betjeman, "Sir John Piers".