166. The Turn of the Screw

In Episode 166 of Adapt or Perish, we’re looking at the many screen adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, the gothic horror classic by Henry James!

In this episode, we discuss:

• Henry James’ original 1898 novella
• The Turn of the Screw, the 1959 episode of Ford’s Startime directed by John Frankenheimer, written by James Costigan, and starring Ingrid Bergman
• The Innocents, the 1961 theatrical movie directed by Jack Clayton, written by William Archibald and Truman Capote, and starring Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, and Michael Redgrave
  • Nerdwriter’s “How to Adapt a Classic Horror Story”
• The Turn of the Screw, the 1974 TV movie directed by Dan Curtis, written by William F. Nolan, and starring Lynn Redgrave and Megs Jenkins
• The Turn of the Screw, the 1989 episode of Shelley Duvall’s Nightmare Classics directed by Graeme Clifford, written by James M. Miller and Robert Hutchison, and starring Amy Irving, Micole Mercurio, Balthazar Getty, and David Hemmings
• The Turn of the Screw, the 1992 theatrical movie written and directed by Rusty Lemorande, and starring Patsy Kensit, Stéphane Audran, Julian Sands, and Marianne Faithfull
  • Captain Eo (1986)
• The Haunting of Helen Walker, the 1995 TV movie directed by Tom McLoughlin, written by Hugh Whitemore, and starring Valerie Bertinelli and Diana Rigg
• The Turn of the Screw, the 1999 TV movie directed by Ben Bolt, written by Nick Dear, and starring Jodhi May, Pam Ferris, and Colin Firth
• Presence of Mind, the 1999 theatrical movie directed by Antoni Aloy, written by Aloy, Barbara Gogny, and Mitch Brian, and starring Sadie Frost, Lauren Bacall, and Harvey Keitel
• In a Dark Place, the 2006 theatrical movie directed by Donato Rotunno, written by Peter Waddington, and starring Leelee Sobieski and Tara Fitzgerald
• The Turn of the Screw, the 2009 TV movie directed by Tim Fywell, written by Sandy Welch, and starring Michelle Dockery, Sue Johnston, Dan Stevens, and Corin Redgrave
• The Turning, the 2020 theatrical movie directed by Floria Sigismondi, written by Carey W. Hayes and Chad Hayes, and starring Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Barbara Marten, and Joely Richardson
• The Haunting of Bly Manor, the 2020 miniseries created by Mike Flanagan, and starring Victoria Pedretti, T’Nia Miller, Henry Thomas, Amelia Eve, and Carla Gugino

165. Lost on a Mountain in Maine

In Episode 165 of Adapt or Perish, Jeremy and Ian are celebrating their home state with a look at Lost on a Mountain in Maine!

In this episode, we discuss:

• The original 1978 book by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan
• Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness, the 2011 graphic novel by Fendler, Lynn Plourde, and Ben Bishop
• The 2024 theatrical movie directed by Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger, written by Luke Paradise, and starring Luke David Blumm, Paul Sparks, and Caitlin FitzGerald

164. Cry, the Beloved Country

In Episode 164 of Adapt or Perish, Ari’s back for a discussion of Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton’s poetic look at South Africa in the years before institutionalized apartheid.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Alan Paton’s original 1948 novel
• Cry, the Beloved Country, the 1951 theatrical movie directed by Zoltán Korda, written by Alan Paton and John Howard Lawson, and starring Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, and Charles Carson
• Lost in the Stars, the 1949 musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, and the 1974 movie directed by Daniel Mann, written by Alfred Hayes, and starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, and Clifton Davis
• Cry, the Beloved Country, the 1995 theatrical movie directed by Darrell Roodt, written by Ronald Harwood and Joshua Sinclair, and starring James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Vusi Kunene, and Charles S. Dutton

Footnotes:

• “Voodoo Macbeth” and Native Son
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)