Nor would she call the movie "faithfully adapted"; the very first characters she lists, a "sybaritic millionaire" and a female "junkie," do not exist in the original.

To compose the facade, he has faithfully adapted the two vertical bays that are joined at the Warburg mansion's 92d Street corner.

Faithfully adapted from the book by Washington Irving, this production has an elaborate music score by Jeffrey Gage, sound effects, and a full cast.

Over at Warner Brothers studios, the Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner were faithfully adapted into a series of six films from 1934 to 1937.

Charles Repole, the director, and Susan Stroman, the choreographer, have faithfully adapted Mr. Robbins's production design to the local thrust stage.

As more or less faithfully adapted from the Leonard book, Steven Soderbergh's film manages the slippery plot maneuverings with panache.

The Medusa Touch is a 1973 novel by Peter Van Greenaway, which was adapted fairly faithfully into a feature film in 1978.

There's nothing wrong with board books per se - some terrific ones have been faithfully adapted from original titles or created specially for the format.

Did you have much creative input in designing the characters and sets, or were they fairly faithfully adapted from the books?

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.