A Streetcar Named Desire. Poster of the 1951 movie and cover of the 1947 book
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams, 1947
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Elia Kazan, 1951

Blanche DuBois, a middle-aged high school English teacher, arrives in New Orleans. She takes a streetcar named Desire to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley Kowalski, live in a dilapidated tenement apartment. Blanche claims to be on leave from her teaching job due to her nerves and wants to stay with Stella and Stanley.


Patton. Poster of the 1970 movie and cover of the 1963 book, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
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Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
Ladislas Farago, 1963
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Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970

General George S. Patton addresses an unseen audience of American troops to raise their morale, focusing in particular on the value placed on winning by American society. Patton is bitterly disappointed to learn that Erwin Rommel, commander of the German-Italian Panzer Army, was on medical leave, but Codman suggests that: If you’ve defeated Rommel’s plan, you’ve defeated Rommel.


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.


Billion Dollar Brain. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1966 book
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Billion Dollar Brain
Len Deighton, 1966
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Ken Russell, 1967

Harry Palmer, who has left MI5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki. The package contains six virus-laden eggs that have been stolen from the British government’s research facility at Porton Down. Harry is abducted by his former MI5 superior, Colonel Ross, who coerces him into working once more for the British government.


Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Poster of the 1979 movie and cover of the 1969 book, The Poseidon Adventure
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The Poseidon Adventure
Paul Gallico, 1969
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Irwin Allen, 1979

After The Poseidon Adventure, in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.