98. Les Misérables, Part 1

It's time for us to start our three-episode look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which concludes in our 100th episode! With today's episode 98, we're look at the book, and six major French- and English-language adaptations from 1934 to 1967.

In this episode we discuss:

• Victor Hugo's original 1862 novel
• The 1934 French three-part movie, directed by Raymond Bernard, written by Bernard and André Lang, and starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel
• The 1935 American movie, directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by W.P. Lipscomb, and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
• The 1937 American radio drama, directed by, written by, and starring Orson Welles
• The 1952 American movie, directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Richard Murphy, and starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, and Edmund Gwenn
• The 1958 French movie, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, written by Michel Audiard and René Barjavel, and starring Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier
• The 1967 British television series, directed by Alan Bridges, written by Giles Cooper and Harry Green, and starring Frank Finlay and Anthony Bate

Footnotes:

• Les Misérables and France's Many Revolutions from Khan Academy

97. The Stepford Wives

Episode 97 of Adapt or Perish just moved in, and gosh, isn’t Stepford simply beautiful? In this episode, we’re taking a look at The Stepford Wives! Who are brainwashed or robots, maybe? It's complicated.

In this episode we discuss:

• Ira Levin's original 1972 novel
• The 1975 movie adaptation, directed by Bryan Forbes, written by William Goldman, and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise
• The 2004 remake, directed by Frank Oz, written by Paul Rudnick, and starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, and Christopher Walken

Footnotes:

• Rosemary's Baby
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
• The Stepford Children (1987)
• The Stepford Husbands (1996)
• In & Out (1997)
• Frank Oz on The Stepford Wives
• Bette's Midler's insane deleted scene

96. Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

We're finally getting to one of our most requested episodes: Daphne du Maurier's romantic thriller Rebecca! This episode is truly putting the perish in Adapt or Perish.

In this episode we discuss:

• Daphne du Maurier's original 1938 novel
• The 1940 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald, and Michael Hogan, and starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, and Judith Anderson
• The 1979 miniseries directed by Simon Langton, written by Hugh Whitemore, and starring Joanna David, Jeremy Brett, and Anna Massey
• The 1997 miniseries directed by Jim O'Brien, written by Arthur Hopcraft, and starring Emilia Fox, Charles Dance, and Diana Rigg
• The 2020 movie directed by Ben Wheatley, written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse, and starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas

Footnotes:

• Episode 23: Dial M for (A Perfect) Murder on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Episode 30: Sherlock Holmes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Episode 43: Jane Eyre, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965)
• Psycho (1960) and Psycho (1998)
• Gosford Park (2001)