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An American Tragedy has been adapted into opera, at the hands of composer Tobias Picker. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera starring Nathan Gunn in New York on December 2, 2005. The well-known Paramount Pictures film A Place in the Sun (1951) is also based on An American Tragedy. Dreiser strongly disapproved of a 1931 film version directed by Josef von Sternberg and also released by Paramount. Sergei Eisenstein prepared a screenplay in the late 1920s which he hoped to have produced by Paramount or by Charlie Chaplin during Eisenstein's stay in Hollywood in 1930. Many critics and commentators have also compared elements of Woody Allen's film, Match Point (2005) to the central plot of An American Tragedy.
The novel inspired an episode of the award-winning old-time radio show Our Miss Brooks, an episode known as "Weekend at Crystal Lake" and sometimes known as "An American Tragedy". The episode revolved around the characters' misinterpreting the intentions of biology teacher Philip Boyton (played by Jeff Chandler), Connie Brooks's (Eve Arden) high school colleague and love interest. The characters fear that Boynton plans to kill Miss Brooks during a leisurely weekend at their boss's lakeside retreat. The episode was broadcast twice, on September 19, 1948, and — with very minor changes — on August 21, 1949. The episode was also repeated in 1955, at a time the show was a hit on both radio and television.[2]