Theater on Film

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This is a list of the major film versions of important plays. It includes all of the films in the American Film Theatre series. This list excludes musicals and Shakespeare. I have included some television productions if the performance was particularly noteworthy.

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    Three Sisters

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Sea Gull

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Cherry Orchard

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    1966, in 19 top lists Check
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    A Delicate Balance

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    Sleuth

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
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    Sleuth

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Caretaker

    1963 — a.k.a. The Guest, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Birthday Party

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Homecoming

    1973, in 1 top list Check
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    Betrayal

    1983, in 1 top list Check
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    Anna Christie

    1930, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Emperor Jones

    1933, in 2 top lists Check
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    Desire Under the Elms

    1958, in 0 top lists Check
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    Long Day's Journey Into Night

    1962, in 3 top lists Check
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    ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Long Day's Journey...

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Iceman Cometh

    1960, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Iceman Cometh

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    A Moon for the Misbegotten

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    Rhinoceros

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
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    Butley

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
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    Galileo

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    Baal

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Look Back in Anger

    1959, in 1 top list Check
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    Look Back in Anger

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Entertainer

    1960, in 1 top list Check
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    Luther

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
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    Lost in the Stars

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
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    Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    In Celebration

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Balcony

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Maids

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    Dancing at Lughnasa

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
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    Philadelphia, Here I Come

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Man in the Glass Booth

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
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    Oh! What a Lovely War

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    The Quare Fellow

    1962, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Connection

    1961, in 2 top lists Check
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    Plenty

    1985, in 1 top list Check
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    My Zinc Bed

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Designated Mourner

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Marie and Bruce

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Fever

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Glengarry Glen Ross

    1992, in 8 top lists Check
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    Oleanna

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Buffalo

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Lakeboat

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Edmond

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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