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Frazier Thomas' cut-and-paste job on "Raiders of the Spanish Main" (1962).
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From the trailer for Michael Sarne's invocation of Gore Vidal's "Myra Breckinridge" (1970).
From the trailer for Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, John Huston, Billy Wilder, David Lean (rumored), …
From the trailer for Frank Borzage's elevation of Phyllis Bottome's "The Mortal Storm" (1940).
From James Whale's lionization of Alexandre Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939).
From the trailer for Nunnally Johnson's glorification of Sloane Wilson's "The Man in the Gray …
From the trailer for Orson Welles' immortalization of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942).
From the trailer for Jack Haley Jr.'s disembowelment of Jackie Susann's "The Love Machine" (1971).
From Luchino Visconti's reading of Gabriele D'Annunzio's "L'Innocente" (1976).
From John Stahl's deification of Ben Ames Williams' "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945).
From Raoul Walsh's supplication of John Wesley Hardin's "The Lawless Breed" (1953).
From Jerry Lewis' beatification of Joseph Levitch's "The Ladies Man" (1961).
From Sam Wood's mutation of Christopher Morley's "Kitty Foyle" (1940).
From Walt Disney's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" (1967).
From the trailer for John Huston's veneration of Ellen Glasgow's "In This Our Life" (1942).
From the prevue for Jean Negulesco's transcription of Fannie Hurst's "Humoresque" (1946).
From the trailer for Roger Corman's laudation of Edgar Allan Poe's "House of Usher" (1960).
From the trailer for William Wellman's explanation of Ernest K. Gann's "The High and the …
From Allan Dwan's alternative to Johanna Spyri's "Heidi" (1937).
