Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jeromeliterary work· published 1889
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Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888. Referenced by [Robert A. Heinlein] in [Have Spacesuit Will Travel] as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired [To Say Nothing of the Dog] by [Connie Willis]. : https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein : https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel : https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14858398W/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_or_how_we_found_the_bishop's_bird_stump_at_last#about/about : https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL20934A/Connie_Willis
Adaptations (5)
Three Men in a Boat has been adapted 5 times, across film and television film, from 1920 to 1979.
Three Men in a Boat1920 · film · dir. Challis Sanderson · IMDb ↗Misadventures of three friends on a Thames boating holiday.
Three Men in a Boat1933 · film · 54 min · dir. Graham Cutts · IMDb ↗IMDb5.0An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
Three Men in a Boat1956 · film · 91 min · dir. Ken Annakin · IMDb ↗IMDb5.3Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Three Men in a Boat1975 · television film · 64 min · dir. Stephen Frears · IMDb ↗IMDb6.9One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
Three Men in a Boat1979 · film · 128 min · dir. Naum Birman · IMDb ↗IMDb6.9Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
