The Graduate. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1963 book
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The Graduate
Charles Webb, 1963
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Mike Nichols, 1967

After earning his bachelor’s degree from an East Coast college, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents’ Pasadena, California home. However, Benjamin’s parents, unaware of the affair, are eager for their son to date Elaine and relentlessly pester him to ask her out, as does Mr. Robinson.


Black Sunday. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1975 book
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Black Sunday
Thomas Harris, 1975
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John Frankenheimer, 1977

Michael Lander is a pilot who flies the Goodyear Blimp over National Football League games to film them for network television. They plan to mount the bomb on the underside of the gondola of the Goodyear blimp which traditionally flies over the Super Bowl football game, and detonate it over the Miami Orange Bowl during Super Bowl X, in order to call attention to the plight of the Palestinians and to punish the US for supporting Israel.


Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident. Poster of the 1976 movie and cover of the 1970 book, Operation Overflight
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Operation Overflight
Francis Gary Powers, 1970
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Delbert Mann, 1976

The story of Francis Gary Powers, a C.I.A. pilot who flew U-2 reconnaissance missions, was shot down while on a spying mission over Russia, taken into custody, and incarcerated.


Marlowe. Poster of the 1969 movie and cover of the 1949 book, The Little Sister
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The Little Sister
Raymond Chandler, 1949
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Paul Bogart, 1969

Philip Marlowe, a private investigator, struggles to earn five hundred dollars. However, if it’s paid for with a bribe, it might as well only be five cents. When Winslow Wong’s offer of money is rejected, Wong immediately turns the detective’s office into a junkyard.


The Blue Lagoon. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the 1908 book
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The Blue Lagoon
Henry de Vere Stacpoole, 1908
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Randal Kleiser, 1980

In the late Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button, survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the children and forbids them by Law from going to the other side of the island, as he had found remains from bloody human sacrifices on an altar there.