Wells / Welles

[William Ryan]

Actually the original novel was also called 'The Island of Dr Moreau'. I 
don't think Orson Welles was ever involved in a film of this, but he was 
notoriously responsible for the radio broadcast of another novel by 
Wells, 'The War of the Worlds', which reputedly caused a panic in parts 
of the US where it was taken for reportage.
There is a bibliography of Russian translations of Welles at 
http://www.bibliograph.ru/Biblio/W/WELLS/WELLS.html
It gives a date of 1904 without details, and a date of 1928 for a 
Leningrad edition translated by K. Morozova.

Will Ryan


siskron at SFSU.EDU wrote:
> thanks for the correction. this should make my research easier. ks
>
> Quoting Prof Steven P Hill <s-hill4 at uiuc.edu>:
>
>> Dear colleagues & Prof Siskron:
>>
>> "Dr. Moreau" (the original book) was written by the British novelist 
>> H. G.
>> Wells ("Gerbert Vell's" in Russian).  In subsequent decades that book 
>> was
>> adapted for the screen (first and most famously starring Charles 
>> Laughton).
>> In one of the later, post-Laughton adaptations, it's possible the 
>> U.S. actor
>> Orson Welles (6 letters) was involved...
>>
>> Best wishes to all,
>> Steven P Hill,
>> University of Illinois.
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Date: Sat 7 Jun 00:07:02 CDT 2008
>> From: <LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS
>> To: "Steven P. Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU>
>>
>> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0700
>> From: siskron at SFSU.EDU
>> Subject: Translations of Frankenstein & Dr. Moreau
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone happens to know the dates when Mary
>> Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein and Orson Welles' The Island of Dr. Moreau
>> were translated into Russian?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Katerina Siskron, SFSU
>

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