How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Poster of the 1966 movie and cover of the 1957 book
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, 1957
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Chuck Jones, Ben Washam, 1966

Everybody in Who-ville enjoys Christmas very much, but the Grinch who lived just to the north of Who-ville didn’t! So the Grinch tries to ruin Christmas for the happy Who-villains, only to realize that perhaps Christmas isn’t what he originally believed it to be. Maybe Christmas has a little bit more significance now!


Scarface. Poster of the 1932 movie and cover of the 1929 book
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Scarface
Armitage Trail, 1929
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Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, 1932

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant Antonio Camonte acts on the orders of Italian mafioso John Lovo and kills Louis Costillo, the leading crime boss of the city’s South Side. However, Johnny repeatedly warns Tony not to mess with the Irish gangs led by O’Hara, who runs the North Side. She visits his apartment where he shows her his view of an electric billboard advertising Cook’s Tours, which features the slogan which inspires him: The World Is Yours.


Frankenstein. Poster of the 1931 movie and cover of the 1818 book
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818
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James Whale, 1931

In a village of the Bavarian Alps, a young scientist named Henry Frankenstein and his assistant Fritz, a hunchback, piece together a human body. In a laboratory he’s built inside an abandoned watchtower, Frankenstein desires to create a human, giving this body life through electrical devices he has perfected.


Bride of Frankenstein. Poster of the 1935 movie and cover of the 1818 book, Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818
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James Whale, 1935

The movie begins where James Whale’s Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.


Bride of Frankenstein. Poster of the 1935 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Bride of Frankenstein
Michael Egremont (Michael Harrison), 1935
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James Whale, 1935

The movie begins where James Whale’s Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.


The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Poster of the 1947 movie and cover of the 1939 book
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber, 1939
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Norman Z. McLeod, 1947

Walter Mitty is an inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He is henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, Gertrude’s obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth, Gertrude’s poodle Queenie and her loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.