Bidaya wa Nihaya (English: A Beginning and an End) is a 1960 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abouseif and based on the novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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The Beginning and the End (Bidaya wa Nihaya) (1960), Naguib Mahfouz (book), Bidaya wa Nihaya (1960) (film)
The Beardless Warriors (1960), Richard Matheson (book), The Young Warriors (1967) (film)
The Young Warriors is a war film filmed in 1966 by Universal Pictures based on Richard Matheson's 1960 novel The Beardless Warriors that was the working title of the film. The novel was inspired by Matheson's own experiences as an 18-year-old infantryman with the 87th Infantry Division in Germany in World War II. The film was directed by John Peyser who had directed 27 episodes of Combat! and would later direct 10 episodes of The Rat Patrol.
The Astronauts (1961), Stanislaw Lem (book), First Spaceship on Venus (1960) (film)
First Spaceship on Venus, German: Der schweigende Stern (en: The Silent Star), Polish: Milczaca Gwiazda, is a 1960 East German/Polish science fiction film directed by Kurt Maetzig and based on the novel The Astronauts by Stanislaw Lem. The film is also known as Planet of the Dead, Silent Star, and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply.
All Fall Down (1960), James Leo Herlihy (book), All Fall Down (1962) (film)
All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel All Fall Down (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy (1965). It was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was adapted by playwright William Inge from the novel and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Upon its release, the film was a minor box-office hit. Together with her performance in Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Angela Lansbury (who played a destructively manipulative mother in both films) won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
