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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

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Anthony Quinn Dancing
The Bradbury Building
Downtown Los Angeles
Angels Flight
Downtown Los Angeles
Statue of Charlie Chaplin
as the Little Tramp
in the Bradbury Building, LA
Demon with a Glass Hand, Robert Culp, the Outer Limits – Bradbury Building LA

Michael Connelly’s Angel’s Flight (a Bosch Novel)

the 1969 film The Illustrated Man includes only three of Bradbury’s stories, plus the overarching frame narrative about the Illustrated Man (Rod Steiger) and the narrator (Robert Drivas).

✔ Stories Included in the Movie

  1. The Veldt
  2. The Long Rain
  3. The Last Night of the World

✔ Frame Story

  • The Illustrated Man / Carl’s search for the woman who tattooed him

The Veldt
The Long Rain
The Last Night of the World

🎬 Structure

The film uses the Illustrated Man’s “living tattoos” as transitions into each of the three stories, but it does not adapt the other 15 stories from the book.
It also rewrites several elements, especially blending the frame characters into the stories—something not done in the book.

ONLY for the stories that appeared in the 1969 Rod Steiger movie (The Veldt, The Long Rain, and The Last Night of the World).
All other titles are left unchanged.

Framing Sections

  • Prologue: The Illustrated Man

Stories

  • The Veldt
    Two children become obsessed with a virtual reality nursery that simulates a lethal African veldt. Their parents slowly realize the room is no longer just imagination—but something the children have weaponized. The parents are torn apart by the wild beasts.
  • Kaleidoscope
  • The Other Foot
  • The Highway
  • The Man
  • The Long Rain
    A group of astronauts on Venus struggle to survive constant, brutal rainfall as they search for a Sun Dome. The unending storm drives some of them to madness as hope fades.
  • The Rocket Man
  • The Fire Balloons
  • The Last Night of the World
    A married couple calmly accepts a shared dream that the world will end that night. Instead of panic, they choose to spend their final hours in quiet, ordinary peace. After killing their children, the new day dawns calmly.
  • The Exiles
  • No Particular Night or Morning
  • The Fox and the Forest
  • The Visitor
  • The Concrete Mixer
  • Marionettes, Inc.
  • The City
  • Zero Hour
  • The Rocket

Ending

  • Epilogue: The Illustrated Man