Which film, Scandalous John or Paul Revere, was based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Paul Revere Paul Revere ( ; December 21, 1734 O.S.May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" (1861).
Xanadu (musical) Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 cult classic film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film "Down to Earth", a sequel to the 1941 movie "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", which was an adaptation of the play "Heaven Can Wait" by Harry Segall. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province where Khan establishes his pleasure garden in the poem.