A Movie Lover's Guide to Academy Award Winning Screenplays, Vol. 12: The Best Adapted Screenplays of the 1970s like The Godfather, The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next, MASH, and More

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Without writers there would be no novels, poetry, or films. A screenplay is the backbone of every great movie - and every not so great movie. They're what actors and directors wait for and dream about and every now and again an amazing screenplay comes along. Some of the best screenplays that come along are adaptations of novels and plays.

This series takes a look at the Academy Award winning adapted screenplays over the past 80 years. In this edition, read about the films "MASH," "The Godfather," "The Exorcist," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and more.

Also read about the Academy Awards and the history behind the film industry's most prestigious honor.

Look for more editions of "A Movie Lover's Guide to Academy Award Winning Screenplays" to read about some of the greatest films ever made.


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