From print to picture: Stories that have inspired films

Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen

By Stephanie Harrison

Three Rivers, 619 pages, $15.95 paper

This book is for that smart, small set of fiction-loving film buffs. The stories that inspired such movies as “Bringing Up Baby,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “A Face in the Crowd” are interspersed with commentaries about how short stories are adapted to the big screen. But grab this book first for some nearly forgotten tales–like “Cyclists’ Raid,” by Frank Rooney, basis of “The Wild One.”