1. A film version starred Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert and led to a series of Ma and Pa Kettle movies. 2. Give yourself an additional point if you identify correctly the novel whose movie version starred Robert Mitchum. 3. The movie version will star Willem Dafoe as Bob Dubois and begin shooting sometime this fall in Canada and nothern New England with Haitian director Raul Peck. 4. The new version stars Goodman and Aykroyd and will include lots of cutting up and some heavy-duty Delta blues. 5. This version stars Marian Seldes and Brian Murray, outsized theatrical presences who, if they rein in their penchants for excess, could be fabulous. 6. The latest film version stars James Earl Jones. 7. The new version stars Guy Pearce as a scientist from a century ago who builds a time machine seeking to undo a tragedy from his past. |