Over the past one hundred years of film production, there have only been a handful of movies that have fulfilled the ambition of turning the great book into a great movie. Literary critics as well as movie critics applaud both versions of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The ciassic children's story, The Wizard of Oz, was transformed into a classic movie musical that parents and children still enjoy today. Lovers of the historical novel, Gone with the Wind, continue fiction readers as well as movie critics both hail Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001;A Space Odyssey, which was co-written by Kubrick with the novel's author arthur C. Clarke, as a masterpiece.