What year was the novel that inspired the 1979 movie Robert Dalva appeared in published?
053f61979e9f904ccdaf22400a2fca2e
Robert Dalva Robert Dalva (born April 14, 1942 in New York City, USA) is a noted American film editor. Filmography as editor includes "The Black Stallion", "Raising Cain", "Jumanji", "Jurassic Park III" and "Hidalgo". Next to editing, he also directed movies, including "The Black Stallion Returns".
50e1044e36811dd7acf070233b890b82
The Black Stallion (film) The Black Stallion is a 1979 American film based on the 1941 classic children's novel "The Black Stallion" by Walter Farley. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a wild Arabian stallion whom he befriends. After being rescued, they are set on entering a race challenging two champion horses.
0bea8ed0a19a8f9199bf6004aa350c84
Fragment of a Novel "Fragment of a Novel" is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron. The story, also known as "A Fragment" and "The Burial: A Fragment", was one of the first in English to feature a vampire theme. The main character was Augustus Darvell. John William Polidori based his novella "The Vampyre" (1819), originally attributed in print to Lord Byron, on the Byron fragment. The vampire in the Polidori story, Lord Ruthven, was modelled on Byron himself. The story was the result of the meeting that Byron had in 1816 with Percy Bysshe Shelley where a "ghost writing" contest was proposed. This contest was also what led to the creation of "Frankenstein" according to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 Preface to the novel. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise. The short story first appeared under the title "A Fragment" in the 1819 collection "Mazeppa: A Poem", published by John Murray in London.
dd7de9070a5f140eadcd0c738dba4592
Nightwing (novel) Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith, who adapted it for a 1979 film with the same title directed by Arthur Hiller.
3d6f25cbafb3b3ec82ed11867f2bfd4c
The Flight of Dragons The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel "The Dragon and the George" (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson. The film centers upon a quest undertaken to stop an evil wizard who plans to rule the world by dark magic. A major theme within the story is the question of whether science and magic can co-exist. This is told mostly through the experience of character Peter Dickinson, drawn from the 20th century into the magical realm.
76cdf06ff3c7f157871b80e6723e5385
Hot Enough for June Hot Enough for June is a 1964 British spy comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas, and featuring Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina in her English film debut, Robert Morley and Leo McKern. It is based on the 1960 novel "The Night of Wenceslas" by Lionel Davidson. The film was cut by twenty minutes and retitled Agent 8¾ for the US release by the American distributor Central Distributing.
65f03887737fac963d930f9c1b7d10c8
The Flight to Lucifer The Flight to Lucifer is a 1979 book by the American literary critic Harold Bloom. His only novel, it was composed as a sequel to the David Lindsay 1920 novel "A Voyage to Arcturus", which supplied the concept of a voyage through space to a distant planet created by a demiurge, and a few other incidental features of the book. However, most of its content derives fairly directly from Gnosticism, which Bloom had studied.
ee1cf7b07826a90dba726dbd9392a004
The Sheik (novel) The Sheik is a 1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century. It was the first of a series of novels she wrote with desert settings that set off a major revival of the "desert romance" genre of romantic fiction. It was a huge best-seller and the most popular of her books, and it served as the basis for the film of the same name starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role.
bf621936a6593bd1d7b87e49a8d2cebe
Unfinished Supper The Unfinished Supper (Latvian: "Nepabeigtās vakariņas") is a 1979 Latvian police film about Martin Beck, directed by Jānis Streičs, based on the novel "Murder at the Savoy" (1970).
911d3be974516d6196f64bee68bed551
Doctor Zhivago (film) Doctor Zhivago (Italian: "Il dottor Zivago") is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and is based on the Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain.
5047ac74ed78d3646fc27c08e58255e1
Breakheart Pass (novel) Breakheart Pass is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), first published in 1974. It was a departure for MacLean in that, despite the thriller novel plot, the setting is essentially that of a western novel, set in the western ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of the Rocky Mountains in the Western United States in the late 19th century. Fans of MacLean will recognize the usual plots twists, thrill-packed finale, and trademark sardonic dialogue. Unfortunately, for American audiences, MacLean was less successful capturing an authentic tone of the frontier American West, and the 1975 movie version starring Charles Bronson, Richard Crenna, Ben Johnson, and Jill Ireland, proved to be more popular with the public than the novel.
f9668305dacf8d2a5d47cfae4d6d125c
Masks of the Illuminati Masks of the Illuminati is a 1981 novel by Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" and over thirty other influential books. Although not a sequel to the earlier work, it does expand information on many of the topics referred to in the trilogy.
d682bec588aa6ad3843361b0a02d632e
The Spike (novel) The Spike is a 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting "Newsweek" journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias.
356de43ece079d0da9015b4f8717e21d
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff is a 1979 American drama film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The screenplay by Polly Platt is based on the 1970 novel of the same title by William Inge. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff", high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor. The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. The film version stars Anne Heywood, John Lafayette, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn and, in her final film, Carolyn Jones.
35edf745a3c166dec30e2550e3684ecf
The Cult (novel) The Cult is a fiction book by Max Simon Ehrlich published in 1979 by Mayflower and was the tenth book by the author.
a046fd8c2a788cc47845967318947e30
Romanzo Criminale (novel) Romanzo criminale is an Italian novel written by the judge Giancarlo De Cataldo and inspired by the true story of the Banda della Magliana, a criminal gang which operated in Italy in Rome between the late 1970s and mid-1980s. The novel, published by Einaudi, formed the basis for the movie of the same name (2005) directed by Michele Placido and for a TV series directed by Stefano Sollima.
0eed84a6e5a028f167f4b0fac53f6b8e
Un dramma borghese Un dramma borghese (internationally released as Mimi) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Florestano Vancini. It is based on the novel with the same title by Guido Morselli and it has as main theme an incestuous love between a father and a daughter.
9b79bb07f3273797d11328aef2496f4b
The Dark Half The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. "Publishers Weekly" listed "The Dark Half" as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger". The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993.
07907d8bd63c57423d140fe9487906df
Midnight (1982 film) Midnight is a 1982 film by John A. Russo. It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name, published by Pocket Books (ISBN  ) (the reprint was issued in 1982 by "Independent-International Pictures" to coincide with their film release).
cff6813c1078ccb99fb4b6a55b473a4a
The Island Queen (novel) The Island Queen: or Dethroned by Fire and Water: a tale of the Southern Hemisphere (1885) is a novel written by Scottish author R.M. Ballantyne. The novel first appeared in Volume VI of Young England, an annual magazine published in London from 1880 to 1937. It was then published in paperback by J. Nisbet & Co. This novel was Ballantyne's 79th publication, written in the latter half of his career.
69348bf8a66c9cc423799842101ab40d
Mountain Cat Mountain Cat (a.k.a. The Mountain Cat Murders) is a mystery novel by Rex Stout, first published in book form in 1939. The story first appeared in the June 1939 issue of "The American Magazine", abridged and titled "Dark Revenge."
efdf9b29eab725e7ae5dba1fdc3ada98
Last Embrace Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel "The 13th Man" by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken, telling the story of a woman who takes the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and killing the descendants of the Lower East Side Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother.