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MOVIES (part 1)

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Films based on books are seldom very impressive, but their success rate is way, way beyond that of the reverse process: the novelisation of a film script is perhaps the ultimate bastard artform. Here's some that were written earlier...


see also Movies Part II: from M to Y
from Midnight Cowboy to Yellow Submarine


SPECIAL FEATURE
HE, AN ACTOR:

The films of David Bowie


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DAVID CASE
AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS...

'Pervading evil ... Unholy darkness'


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LEONORE FLEISCHER
ANNIE

'The ageless classic - now the film of the decade'


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GEORGE GIPE
BACK TO THE FUTURE

'A high-spirited adventure film'


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GEORGE SCHENCK & WILLIAM MARKS
BARQUERO

'A stunning new kind of Adult Western'


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JERZY KOSINSKI
BEING THERE

'The startling novel about fame, power and a new TV hero'


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VERILY ANDERSON
BEWARE OF CHILDREN

'The book on which the sensational comedy hit No Kidding starring Leslie Phillips was based'


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BURT HIRSCHFELD
BONNIE AND CLYDE

'Love was almost enough for them but it was murder that made the delicious difference'


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FRED SABERHAGEN & JAMES V. HART
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

'A legendary evil inspires a motion picture event'


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SUSAN HILL
BREAKING GLASS

'She's this year's girl. See her in the shattering new movie.'


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WILLIAM HOWARD
GORE VIDAL'S CALIGULA

'A novel in the grand manner, sexy, colourful, memorable...'


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BRONTE WOODWARD & ALLAN CARR
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC

'A Photobook to help you remember always -
the movie musical event of the '80s'


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LILLIAN HELLMAN
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

'The devastating effects of an accusation of unorthodox love in a girls' school'


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TIMOTHY LEA
CONFESSIONS OF A POP PERFORMER

'Teenyboppers, hungry groupies, payola, crooked DJs, foreign tours, golden discs, TV spectaculars, screaming fans and packed out concert halls...'


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PETER SAXON
CORRUPTION

'Where will the bodies turn up next?'


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MAX FRANKLIN
THE DARK

'There is reason to be afraid'


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GEORGE ROMERO & SUSANNA SPARROW
DAWN OF THE DEAD

'When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth'


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E.M. CORDER
THE DEER HUNTER

'The award-winning movie of the year'


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JACK OSBOURNE EASTON
DEFENCE OF THE REALM

'Ex-Defence MP In KGB Sex Scandal'


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JAMES DICKEY
DELIVERANCE

'A brilliant tale of action'


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SUSAN DWORKIN
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

'It's a life so outrageous it takes two women to live it!'


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JOHN BURKE
DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS

'A Regal Films International release'


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BRIAN DE PALMA & CAMPBELL BLACK
DRESSED TO KILL

'Death was never far behind when she went on the town'


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FRANK DE FELITTA
THE ENTITY

'The ultimate novel of supernatural terror and sexual horror...'


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JERRY POURNELLE
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES

'Meet Baby Milo who has Washington terrified'


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WOLF MANKOWITZ
EXPRESSO BONGO

'Soho Johnny never had it so good - or lost it so fast'


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H.B. GILMOUR
EYES OF LAURA MARS

'One of the most chilling and fascinating films of the decade'


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LEONORE FLEISCHER
FAME

'Now a spectacular motion picture from MGM'


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TODD STRASSER
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

'Everybody needs a day off'


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JOE ESZTERHAS
F.I.S.T.

'The hammering bestseller of power, corruption and driving ambition'


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DEWEY GRAM
FOXES

'The last summer before womanhood. It seemed like a lifetime. For one of them, it was.'


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RONALD SCOTT THORN
THE FULL TREATMENT

'When a psychiatrist shatters a man's mind to get his wife ... who gets the full treatment?'


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MARGARET FORSTER
GEORGY GRL

'Is Georgy good-for-nothing ... or game for anything?'


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C.K. CHANDLER
GOD TOLD ME TO

'A child is born. A wave of murder has begun. Is it the final warning?'


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MADELEINE SHANER
GOIN' SOUTH

'No self-respectin' outlaw had a woman for a partner - but Henry Moon had no choice... apart from a fella who wanted to hang him!'


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STEPHEN VOLK
GOTHIC

'A new film by Ken Russell'


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RON DE CHRISTOFORO + WILLIAM ROTSLER
GREASE
+ GREASE 2
'Grease is forever!'


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MICHAEL WELLER
HAIR

'Let the sun shine in!'


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CURTIS RICHARDS
HALLOWEEN

'Trick ... or treat ... or die'


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JOHN BURKE
THE HAMMER HORROR FILM OMNIBUS
'Four films from the House of Hammer, masters of memorable screen horror, here presented as four suspenseful novels'


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LEONORE FLEISCHER
HEAVEN CAN WAIT

'Joe Pendleton - the only guy who ever raised Hell about going to Heaven'


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JACK ROFFEY
HOSTILE WITNESS

'A tense court room drama'


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ROSEMARY KINGSLAND
HUSSY

'The sensational novel of clubland's twilight world'


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WALTER TEVIS
THE HUSTLER

'The classic novel... The legendary movie...'


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RAY BRADBURY
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

'There is no writer quite like Ray Bradbury'


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RAY RUSSELL
INCUBUS

'More terrifying than Teh Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby combined! The Novel of sexual possession.'


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DEAN DEVLIN, ROLAND EMMERICH & STEPHEN MOLSTAD
INDEPENDENCE DAY

'The doomsday ship ...'


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ANTON RIMART
INSERTS

'Based on the erotic film comedy'


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BRYAN FORBES
INTERNATIONAL VELVET

'A girl, a horse and a triumphant ride for Olympic gold...'


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RALPH HOOVER
JABBERWOCKY

'Warning: This book is not for sensitive persons, persons of a nervous disposition or any other wets who are taken in by silly warnings like these.'


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ROSEMARY KINGSLAND
JUST A GIGOLO

'A young man's story of Berlin in the 1920s'


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DELOS W. LOVELACE
KING KONG

'The ape that has thrilled millions - the great original himself - the one and only...'


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HUGH ENFIELD
KRONOS


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WILLIAM JOHNSTON
KLUTE

'A cop and a call girl run a collision course with murder!'


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ROBERT ALLEY
LAST TANGO IN PARIS

'A film by Bernardo Bertolucci'


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ANGUS HALL
THE LATE BOY WONDER

'An outrageous excursion into the realm of black comedy'


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ROBERT BLACK
LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF

'Horror stalked the streets of Paris'


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ROGER VAILLAND, ROGER VADIM & CLAUDE BRULE
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

'Daring and adult ... the most famous film ever to come out of France'


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MICHAEL DE FORREST
THE LICKERISH QUARTET

'The complete original screenplay with uncensored scenes from the sensational motion picture'


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JOHN GARDNER
THE LIQUIDATOR

'The successor to James Bond'


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Movies Part II: from M to Y
from Midnight Cowboy to Yellow Submarine

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