From: howard@grace.cri.nz (Howard Silby)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 04:39:38 GMT

In article <1993Mar5.112640.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:

>1. Maurice                        a  b     d
>2. Passage to India               a           e
>3. Room with a View               a  b  c
>4. Where Angels Fear to Tread     a     c     e
>5. Howards End                    a  b  c       f
>6. Impromptu                                  e f
>
>a: Based on a book written by E.M.Forester
>b: A movie by Merchant (producer) and Ivory (director)
>c: Starring Helena Bonham Carter
>d: Cameo by Helena Bonham Carter
>e: With Judy Davis
>f: With Emma Thompson
>
>In other words, your quadruple bill is of *Forester* movies, but if you
>wanted to do a triple bill of Forester/Merchant-Ivory films, it would be:
>...

Very good except that it's not Forester its Forster. Edward Morgan Forster
born 1 January 1879, 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London. 
There is a well known but lesser reknown novelist, C.S Forester

And what does Impromptu have to do with Forster films ;- Great film though

For some of last year we had A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear...,
Howards End all running (in a city with 5 cinemas). Howards End is 
still running (sold-out last night). And a Forster double feature is
on later this month.

To get the right order for a quintiple-Forster bill try: Where Angels
Fear...(pub.1905), A Room With a View(pub.1908), Howards End(pub.1910),
Maurice(written 1914,revised 1919,1932,1959-60,pub.1971), A Passage to
India(pub.1924).

However there is no need to preserve continuity (the novels are not a 
series as someone once asked) although in the film version of A Room With
a View, reference is made to the events of Where Angels Fear to Tread.

An interesting point given that Forster adaptations comprise some of the
great English language films of the last ten years is that Forster while
alive rejected large sums of money for the film rights of A Passage to
India.

Howard
Wellington, N.Z

"Was she got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella"
A famous author (Katherine Mansfield) quizzes Forster on the facts of life.