Film
The first screen adaptation appears to have been a silent 1921 Dutch-UK co-production directed by Maurits Binger and Frank Richardson. Alex Bryce directed a well-regarded UK adaptation of the novel in 1937, with Patrick Waddington as Cornelus Van Baerle. A 5-part BBC miniseries debuted in August 1956 with Douglas Wilmer in the lead role. A second British miniseries appeared in September 1970. In 1988, Australia's Burbank production company created a 50-minute children's animated film from a bowdlerised version of the story.
In 1963, a movie called La Tulipe noire with actor Alain Delon was produced in France, but was not based on the novel. There was also a short Finnish documentary made by Pacho Lane in 1988 called The Black Tulip, but it told the story of Soviet soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
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