{"id":654,"date":"2007-05-30T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=654"},"modified":"2016-10-11T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T05:47:03","slug":"the-15-greatest-movies-with-novels-as-source-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-15-greatest-movies-with-novels-as-source-material","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Greatest Movies with Novels as Source Material"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only are these great movies, but the novels on which they are based are classics, too. If you’re in a reading group, why not read the book, then watch the movie? I only chose novels, no non-fiction (i.e., A Beautiful Mind<\/span>) or drama (i.e., Much Ado About Nothing<\/span>). Movies are listed alphabetically.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ben-Hur<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Lew Wallace<\/li>\n
  2. The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Pierre Boulle<\/li>\n
  3. \"FieldField of Dreams<\/span><\/a> – Based on Shoeless Joe<\/span><\/a> by W.P. Kinsella<\/li>\n
  4. The Godfather<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Mario Puzo<\/li>\n
  5. Gone with the Wind<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Margaret Mitchell<\/li>\n
  6. The Grapes of Wrath<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by John Steinbeck<\/li>\n
  7. The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n
  8. The Maltese Falcon<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Dashiell Hammet<\/li>\n
  9. Master and Commander<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Patrick O’Brian<\/li>\n
  10. The Natural<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Bernard Malamud<\/li>\n
  11. A Room with a View<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by E.M. Forster<\/li>\n
  12. The Searchers<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Alan Lemay<\/li>\n
  13. Shane<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Jack Schaefer<\/li>\n
  14. To Kill a Mockingbird<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Harper Lee<\/li>\n
  15. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/span><\/a> – Novel<\/a> by Arthur C. Clarke<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What are your favorite movies based on novels? Leave a comment and let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Not only are these great movies, but the novels on which they are based are classics, too. If you’re in a reading group, why not read the book, then watch the movie? I only chose novels, no non-fiction (i.e., A Beautiful Mind) or drama (i.e., Much Ado About Nothing). Movies are listed alphabetically. Ben-Hur – Novel by Lew Wallace The Bridge on the River Kwai – Novel by Pierre Boulle Field of Dreams – Based on Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella The Godfather – Novel by Mario Puzo...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[36,47,31],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-movies","tag-book-recommendations","tag-classics","tag-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fieldofdreams.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-ay","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}