Can you name the novels adapted into movies of the same name?

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Can you name the novel adapted into a movie with the same title, given the author and the director? (No short stories, novellas, non-fiction, or movies that changed the title.)
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Author	Title	Director
J.G. Ballard		David Cronenberg
Peter Benchley		Steven Spielberg
Robert Bloch		Alfred Hitchcock
Pierre Boulle		Franklin J. Schaffner
Anthony Burgess		Stanley Kubrick
James M. Cain		Billy Wilder
Richard Condon		John Frankenheimer
James Fenimore Cooper		Michael Mann
Roald Dahl		Wes Anderson
Philip K. Dick		Richard Linklater
James Ellroy		Curtis Hanson
William Goldman		Rob Reiner
Winston Groom		Robert Zemeckis
Davis Grubb		Charles Laughton
Dashiell Hammett		John Huston

Author	Title	Director
Robert Heinlein		Paul Verhoeven
Stephen King		Brian De Palma
Milan Kundera		Philip Kaufman
Dennis Lehane		Martin Scorsese
Elmore Leonard		Steven Soderbergh
Ira Levin		Roman Polanski
Cormac McCarthy		Joel & Ethan Coen
Gregory Mcdonald		Michael Ritchie
Margaret Mitchell		Victor Fleming
Chuck Palahniuk		David Fincher
Christopher Priest		Christopher Nolan
Mario Puzo		Francis Ford Coppola
John Steinbeck		John Ford
Charles Webb		Mike Nichols
Irvine Welsh		Danny Boyle
J.G. Ballard	Danny Boyle
Peter Benchley	Danny Boyle
Peter Benchley	Danny Boyle
Pierre Boulle	Danny Boyle
James M. Cain	Danny Boyle
James M. Cain	Danny Boyle
Raymond Chandler	Danny Boyle
Richard Condon	Danny Boyle
Roald Dahl	Danny Boyle
Roald Dahl	Danny Boyle
Roald Dahl	Danny Boyle
Philip K. Dick	Danny Boyle
Philip K. Dick	Danny Boyle
James Ellroy	Danny Boyle
William Golding	Danny Boyle
Dashiell Hammett	Danny Boyle
Dashiell Hammett	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Stephen King	Danny Boyle
Dennis Lehane	Danny Boyle
Dennis Lehane	Danny Boyle
Elmore Leonard	Danny Boyle
Ira Levin	Danny Boyle
Ira Levin	Danny Boyle
Ira Levin	Danny Boyle
Cormac McCarthy	Danny Boyle
Cormac McCarthy	Danny Boyle
Gregory Mcdonald	Danny Boyle
Mario Puzo	Danny Boyle
John Steinbeck	Danny Boyle
John Steinbeck	Danny Boyle
John Steinbeck	Danny Boyle
John Steinbeck	Danny Boyle

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Adaptations: Name the Title Quiz

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	BobMillahhh:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 17:18 GMT		4 points
	Just barely got more real answers than bonus answers... fun, but tough.

	Penny:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT		7 points
	@Flick (archived comments) - they changed the name (Willy Wonka, not Charlie) for the 1971 version, so it wouldn't count here.

	cyranyx:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 18:00 GMT		11 points
	Hmm, no love for Michael Crichton? The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere, Rising Sun, Timeline, Congo, Disclosure.

	BDR22:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 18:10 GMT		3 points
	I didn't like a lot of these movies, too bad that's not a good excuse for missing them. Great quiz.

	Hiuu:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 18:40 GMT		4 points
	Well, I don't really remember films by directors so I found this quite hard

	DarkPhalanx:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 18:41 GMT		2 points
	Excellent quiz.

	moviegoer74:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 18:58 GMT		0 points
	There's nothing wrong with this quiz, but it's a little random. There have been hundreds of books adapted into films of the same title. Why stop at 30? And why these 30? There's nothing in particular that unifies these 30 as far as I can tell.

	omnipotent1:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 19:13 GMT		12 points
	Why does there have to be a unifying theme? Trivia questions themselves are often somewhat random, with the only criteria for their selection being the likelihood a given population (i.e. those anticipated to take the trivia quiz) will know the answers or not know the answers.

	cthulhu:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 19:20 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz. The only improvement I can see is to capitalize the 'D' in 'McDonald.'

	rlnintendo:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 19:45 GMT		1 point
	No love for The Outsiders... :-(

	scarequotes:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 19:52 GMT		10 points
	@moviegoer74: You say random, I say "deliberately cast a wide net." (Though one factor I used was IMDb's top-rated movies and filtering for movies based on books. So popularity of the film came into play.) And I figure I'll do at least one more quiz with this premise -- Crichton and Hinton fans, take heart.

	chikka2:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 20:12 GMT		1 point
	Great idea for a quiz, well-executed and challenging

	moviegoer74:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 21:01 GMT		-1 points
	@omnipotent1...there doesn't have to be a unifying theme. That's why I prefaced my post by saying there's nothing wrong with this quiz. But without one it's natural to wonder why The Maltese Falcon but not The Thin Man, or why The Grapes of Wrath but not East of Eden (for example). Because there are literally hundreds of film/novel combos that fit the quiz criteria some explanation of how these particular 30 were selected would be nice.

	dummo:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 21:48 GMT		0 points
	@moviegoer74: This is a good list of books adapted into films. In this list not only are the films very well known, but also for each clue either the director or author is a recognised name, making it somewhat easier to identify the answer. That's not the case for most books that are adapted into films, so for that reason alone I think this is a very good selection.

	scarequotes:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 23:01 GMT		6 points
	@moviegoer74: One criterion I forgot to mention: One mention of each author or director. So I picked Maltese Falcon as my one Hammett entry, primarily because the director is also famous. Same with Grapes of Wrath vs. East of Eden. So, overview of selection process: Popular movies based on well-known novels, one per author or director, with a deliberate attempt to be broad and not end up with, say, a list that was half SF or mystery or Stephen King. (Someone could do a really good SF-focused quiz, for example.)

	scarequotes:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 23:03 GMT		1 point
	@cthulhu: I triple-checked that one -- Gregory Mcdonald didn't cap the D in his name, it seems.

	Fidelio:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 23:16 GMT		4 points
	I'm relieved to see that there are no comments saying, "David Cronenberg didn't direct Crash, Paul Haggis did!!!"

	zwalsh54:	Dec 30th, 2010 at 23:34 GMT		1 point
	What about halloween?

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	dlte:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 00:19 GMT		2 points
	no Michael Crichton/Steven Spielberg for Jurassic Park?

	Scout_Number_4:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 00:54 GMT		4 points
	How about "Lord of the Flies" and/or some Shakespeare for V2.0?

	JuliannasGaGa:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 01:16 GMT		6 points
	@Scout...Shakespeare? Which novel of his do you think belongs?

	JeffMA0710:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 02:13 GMT		-1 points
	Silence of the Lambs? Hannibal? Red Dragon? Thomas Harris? Remember him?

	kbmaster:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 02:32 GMT		1 point
	Just wish there was some female directors/authors in here... no support for the ladies these days...

	bingobongo:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 03:23 GMT		4 points
	Little surprised that Night of the Hunter is second to last because, even though I had no idea it was from a novel, a bit of trivia that I have heard a few times is that it was the only film that Charles Laughton directed.

	Riko:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 04:42 GMT		3 points
	I wonder how many people actually knew 'Jaws' and how many got it because of the picture on the main page.

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	thejazzkickazz:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 16:01 GMT		5 points
	Thank you for including so many classic films in this quiz. Too often it seems that movie quizzes never include anything pre-1970, and even then it's just to include Casablanca. Bravo!

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	Akd17:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 02:21 GMT		3 points
	A Clockwork Orange is classified as a novella, but you said no novellas... :S

	scarequotes:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 07:12 GMT		2 points
	@Akd17: Wow. I've seen ACO referred to as a novel so often that I didn't realize it bordered on novella territory -- but there are plenty of references to it as one. Good catch, and sorry for the confusion. (If an admin wants to get rid of the mention of "novellas" in the description, I'd be in favor.)

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	teh_DR:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 05:40 GMT		4 points
	You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB