Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol. Poster of the 1962 movie and cover of the 1843 book, A Christmas Carol
VS3
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
movie vs book
Abe Levitow, 1962

Mr. Magoo is heading to a theater on Broadway, where he is starring as Ebenezer Scrooge in a musical production based on A Christmas Carol. Scrooge goes home and gets ready for bed, but is visited by the ghost of his business partner Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years.


The Hobbit. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
VS3
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
movie vs book
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., 1977

Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by the evil dragon Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn’t.


The Stingiest Man in Town. Poster of the 1978 movie and cover of the 1843 book, A Christmas Carol
VS3
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, 1843
movie vs book
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., 1978

The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, told through the perspective of B.A.H. Humbug, obviously a word play on Scrooge’s catch phrase, bah humbug. After Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to assist the poor or have Christmas Dinner with his nephew, he is visited by the ghost of his one time business partner and friend, Jacob Marley.


The Return of the King. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the 1955 book
VS3
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
movie vs book
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., 1980

At Bilbo Baggins’s 129th birthday party in Rivendell, his nephew Frodo tells the story of the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. In Mordor, Frodo’s friend and companion Samwise Gamgee bears the Ring in Frodo’s absence as he ventures to rescue Frodo from the Orc fortress of Cirith Ungol. During his journey, Sam is tempted to claim the Ring for himself.