#The bottle imp movie
#The bottle imp series

Keawe tests the bottle's power by immediately wishing for his money back. As a sailor, Keawe visits San Francisco where he buys the bottle from a sad old man. The main character in the story is a Hawaiian named Keawe. The bottle's original owner, a legendary Asian king, paid a vast fortune for it many centuries ago but at the beginning of the story its price has already been reduced to eighty dollars. It cannot be thrown away or given away for free. The bottle must be paid for in coins, not in paper money or by check. In order to avoid the curse, the owner of the bottle has to sell it at a loss. The imp grants every wish of the person who owns the bottle but anybody who still has the bottle at the time of his or her death is cursed to eternal punishment in Hell. The story centers around a bottle in which an imp, a little demon, lives.

#The bottle imp series

Stevenson's story was loosely adapted as an episode of the American radio series CBS Radio Mystery Theater called 'The Imp in the Bottle' which first aired on September 3, 1974.

#The bottle imp movie

The story concerns a Hawaiian who comes into possession of a magical bottle that makes all wishes come true but at a terrible cost.Ī silent movie based on 'The Bottle Imp' was released by Paramount Pictures in 1917 but the film has now been lost. It was published again in Stevenson's 1893 collection of short stories Island Nights' Entertainment. 'The Bottle Imp' was serialized in the New York Herald between February and March 1891 and in the British magazine Black and White between March and April 1891.

Although it was written in English, the story was first published in a Samoan translation in 1891, Stevenson said that he intended the story for Polynesian readers. At the time that Stevenson wrote the story, he had moved to Samoa for his health. 'The Bottle Imp' is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Earlier versions had a stand-up cardboard piece that you cut out.British edition of issue #45 of Classics Illustrated which contains an adaptation of Stevenson's 'The Bottle Imp'. Stevenson is included (in both English & German) and the bottle is a nice wooden piece. In the 2003 edition the complete story by R.L. Play continues until the point goal is reached. One player will be stuck with the bottle at the end of a hand (when players have played all the cards in their hands).Ĭards have point values from 1-6 (not directly based on numerical value), at the end of the hand players will score points for the cards of tricks they’ve won, except the player who holds the bottle who will score NEGATIVE points for all the cards played to the bottle at the beginning, scoring nothing for the cards they won during the hand. Ownership of the bottle will pass from player to player and the number of possible trump cards will decrease both as a factor of cards being played and cards being skipped as the bottle price descends. Thus the price of the bottle will decrease with each trump card played, and the bottle is increasingly harder to win/purchase. If multiple cards are less than the current bottle price, the card valued closest to the current price (so highest card below the bottle) takes the trick AND THE BOTTLE, the bottle price is adjusted by the player taking the card that represents the current bottle price and replacing it with the card they used to win the trick.

Any card of value lower than the current price of the bottle (starting with 19) is considered 'trump' and will win the trick. The unique feature about this game however is how trump is determined. As per the usual elements of a trick taking game, players must follow suit if possible with high card taking the trick (regardless of suit). The entire deck is dealt to the three or four players in the game and then, similarly to hearts, cards are exchanged and a card is played to the bottle. There is one neutral card, the 19, that sets the 'price of the bottle.' Cards are numbered 1-37 and are found in three colors, red (comprising largely the highest numbers), blue (mostly in the middle) and yellow (mostly the lowest numbers) with colors being analogous to the suit in a standard deck. In this trick-taking game based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson of the same name, the goal is to gain the most points over a series of hands (usually the goal is set to 200 pts).