British Remakes

[dar111]

...of American films? I like the Hammer films . I guess most of them fit in this category.

[Marky B]

Hi dar111,

Can you name me any British remakes of US film - I am not saying there isn'tany,but I just can't think of one.

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[Paul E]

I think the very first (of the many) versions of 'The Four Feathers', from 1915, was an American production, so I guess that counts, especially as Korda's is agreed to be the definitive version. I'm hard pressed to think of any films from the modern era which have been remade in the UK though - I'm sure there must others that go against the traffic.

[Paul E]

Just thought - although there is admittedly a bit of Hollywood in it, Micky Powell & co's Thief of Baghdad (1940) was originally made by Douglas Fairbanks as a silent film.

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Paul E:

Just thought - although there is admittedly a bit of Hollywood in it, Micky Powell & co's Thief of Baghdad (1940) was originally made by Douglas Fairbanks as a silent film. [/b]

Same title, there are a few significant variations but it's a essentially the same story. In the Fairbanks version, Fairbanks plays the thief who falls in love with the Princess & pretends to be a Prince to gain her hand by performing a few tasks. In the Korda/Powell version the Prince falls in love with the Princess and the Thief rescues them & helps them.



The Korda/Powell version has a much better villain in the shape of Conrad Veidt :)



Steve

[dar111]

I mentioned Hammer because I was thinking of the Dracula-Frankenstein franchise but there's also the Mummy, Wolfman, Phantom, Sherlock, Robin Hood, and Dr. Jekyll films.

[DB7]

Most of those are either English stories or fables that would be hard to describe as remakes, they'd probably been performed on the London stage before the advent of film.



Bram Stoker himself was an actor and manager at the Lyceum.

[dar111]

If a Hollywood King Arthur movie was based on a medieval French poem that was in turn based on an old Welsh folk tale, it is still a Hollywood movie. Any subsequent film based on the original movie would be a remake.

[DB7]

</div><div class='quotemain'>dar111:

If a Hollywood King Arthur movie was based on a medieval French poem that was in turn based on an old Welsh folk tale, it is still a Hollywood movie. Any subsequent film based on the original movie would be a remake. [/b]

Nope. Fuqua's King Arthur, Boorman's Excalibur and Richard Harris' Camelot are all very different films. A remake is a direct imitation of an earlier film.



An example would be Errol Flynn's Prince and the Pauper and the cameo-laden 70s version with Ollie Reed and Mark Lester.

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>dar111:

If a Hollywood King Arthur movie was based on a medieval French poem that was in turn based on an old Welsh folk tale, it is still a Hollywood movie. Any subsequent film based on the original movie would be a remake. [/b]

But how do you tell if a subsequent film is based on the earlier film or on the original tale (or any variant of it)? :)



Steve

[DB7]

Nevermind Steve, we've King Kong, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Oliver Twist, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and War of the Worlds to look forward to in 2005.



Creatively bankrupt or a quick buck? wink

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>DB7:

Nevermind Steve, we've King Kong, Batman Begins, Superman Returns, Oliver Twist, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and War of the Worlds to look forward to in 2005.



Creatively bankrupt or a quick buck? wink [/b]

Oh goodie, I can hardly wait sleep



Steve

[dar111]

"Creatively bankrupt or a quick buck?"





"Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde"

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

</div><div class='quotemain'>DB7:

SNIP King Kong, SNIP to look forward to in 2005.



Creatively bankrupt or a quick buck? wink [/b]

Oh Dear!!



Poor old Edgar will be spinning in his grave.



ghostly ghostly ghostly ghostly

[David Brent]

Has anyone seen the 'Invisible Man'?



Maybe i'm cheating a little here because it involves a British television series and not a movie, but....

The memorable British television series of the fifties THE INVISIBLE MAN was a take on the origional classic US film of the same name in 1933.

Written by H.G.Wells you could say the story was British to start with but it was the American's who first made the classic to film.



"If it's the Invisible Man tell him i can't see him." hysteric



Dave.

[Soapy Stevens]

What about Mean Machine with V.Jones, remake of the American classic with Burt Reynolds?

[Marky B]

Actually it was not a bad movie,considering I thought Vinnie jones had stretched his acting talents in Lock,Stock... . Now there is a going to be an American remake of what I assume of the Burt Reynold's original.

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