The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Poster of the 1962 movie and cover of the 1953 book
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Dorothy M. Johnson, 1953
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John Ford, 1962

Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. Upon entering the territory as a young attorney, Ranse is beaten and robbed by Liberty Valance and his gang. Tom is the only man who stands up to Valance, stating that force is all Valance understands.


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Poster of the 1962 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
James Warner Bellah, 1962
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John Ford, 1962

Senator Ranse Stoddard and his wife Hallie arrive in Shinbone, a frontier town in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. Upon entering the territory as a young attorney, Ranse is beaten and robbed by Liberty Valance and his gang. Tom is the only man who stands up to Valance, stating that force is all Valance understands.


The Wild Bunch. Poster of the 1969 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Wild Bunch
Brian Fox, 1969
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Sam Peckinpah, 1969

In 1913 Texas, Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement after one final score: the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver. The gang is ambushed by Pike’s former partner, Deke Thornton, who is leading a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad. A bloody shootout kills several members of the gang.


The Killers. Poster of the 1946 movie and cover of the 1927 book
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The Killers
Ernest Hemingway, 1927
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Robert Siodmak, 1946

Two hitmen, Max and Al, arrive in Brentwood, New Jersey to kill Pete Lund, a former boxer known as The Swede. Rejecting Lubinsky’s suggestion to join the police force, the Swede becomes mixed up with crime boss Big Jim Colfax, and drops his girlfriend Lily for the more glamorous Kitty Collins.


Birdman of Alcatraz. Poster of the 1962 movie and cover of the 1955 book
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Birdman of Alcatraz
Thomas E. Gaddis, 1955
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John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton, 1962

While serving a life sentence at Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer, nurses a sick bird that enters his cell back to health, eventually transforming into an internationally recognized expert in ornithology.


The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Poster of the 1939 movie and cover of the 1831 book, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo, 1831
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William Dieterle, 1939

In 1482 Paris, France, Frollo, the Chief Justice of King Louis XI, becomes obsessed with the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. Meanwhile, Quasimodo, Frollo’s protégé and the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives peacefully in the heights of the cathedral until Frollo involves him in his twisted plans to rid himself of Esmeralda, who he believes has cast a spell on him.


1984. Poster of the 1956 movie and cover of the 1949 book
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1984
George Orwell, 1949
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Michael Anderson, 1956

A voice-over narrator explains that in the mid-1950s, a nuclear war and devastation of Earth gave rise to three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, controlled by one all-powerful Party, embodied by the figurehead Big Brother.