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Vol. 109, No. 15
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From printed page to the silver screen

Published in the June 10, 2009, issue

Thornton Wilder *26

THE BOOK The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

THE MOVIE (2004)
Directed by Mary McGuckian
Starring Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, and Geraldine Chaplin

THE MOVIE (1944)
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Starring Lynn Bari, Louis Calhern, Francis Lederer, and Akim Tamiroff

THE MOVIE (1929)
Directed by Charles Brabin
Starring Ernest Torrence, Racquel Torres, and Henry B. Walthall

THE MOVIE PLOT (Drama)
The lives of five unrelated people, who are tragically killed when a rope bridge in 18th-century Peru collapses, are explored through flashbacks. Local residents believe that the bridge’s destruction was the result of divine intervention.  


THE BOOK Theophilus North (1973)

THE MOVIE Mr. North (1988)
Directed by Danny Huston
Starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Angelica Huston, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Virginia Madsen

THE MOVIE PLOT (Comedy/Romance)
A young man moves to a small Rhode Island town and acquires an unusual power — the ability to create mild electric shocks with his hands — that he uses to help heal the people he befriends.

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