The Parent Trap (1961/1998)

Source Material: The Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novels about the disastrous voyage of an 18th century British warship. The novels were themselves based on the infamous real-world mutiny.

Source Material: George Romero's screenplay for 1978's influential zombie movie Dawn of the Dead, the second installment in a franchise that began a decade prior with Night of the Living Dead.

Source Material: Louisa May Alcott's semi-autobiographical novel of four sisters growing into womanhood. First published in 1868, and here reimagined by three different eras of Hollywood.

Source Material: The American novelist Evan Hunter's novel King's Ransom, though directors Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee largely use the book as a starting point for their explorations of social problems.