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Hop-Frog, Trippetta, the king and his councilors, 1935 illustration by Arthur Rackham. French director Henri Desfontaines made the earliest film adaptation of "Hop-Frog" in 1910. James Ensor's 1896 painting titled, Hop-Frog's Revenge, is based on the story. A 1926 symphony by Eugene Cools was inspired by and named after Hop-Frog.
"Hop-Frog": An adaptation of "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe, first broadcast on October 27, 1998 via National Public Radio. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" : An adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo , first broadcast on November 20, 2001 via National Public Radio.
In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
The screenplay, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe, [2] and incorporates a subplot based on another Poe tale, "Hop-Frog".
It has a stout body with small legs, which makes it unable to hop or leap, so it walks around on the sand. Unusually for a frog, it does not require water in its habitat to survive, but it does not have any apparent adaptation to prevent water loss. [7] Its eyes are comparatively large and bulging. The lifespan ranges between 4 and 14 years.
It would be the last of Corman's eight film adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe. Ligeia's theme of the death and resurrection of a beloved woman was subsequently developed by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo. [citation needed] In 1978, composer Georges Aperghis adapted the story into an opera under the French title "Je vous dis que je suis mort."
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [ 1 ] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".
In the film, all characters except the titular character Hop-Frog are either elaborate puppets or masks, not unlike Taymor's stage work. [18] The film won the Best Drama award at the Tokyo International Electronic Cinema Festival. [19] Taymor also directed a film adaptation of opera Oedipus rex after