There have been several short film adaptations of "The Luck of Roaring Camp", and a small number of feature films.
The first film adaptation was The Luck of Roaring Camp (1910), which was a short film produced by the Thomas Edison Motion Picture Company. The film was adapted and directed by character actor Frank McGlynn Sr.; his son Thomas played the role of Tommy Luck. Paramount Pictures produced a Will Rogers adaptation, Roaring Camp, in 1916, featuring L. Frank Baum as Oakhurst.
Some of the other adaptations are:
- The Luck of Roaring Camp (1917), an Edison adaptation by Edward H. Griffith that stars Ivan Christy and Eugene Field
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937), an RKO Pictures adaptation by John Twist that stars Virginia Weidler and Si Jenks
- Luck of Roaring Camp (1937), a Monogram Pictures adaptation by Harvey Gates that stars Byron Foulger and Ferris Taylor[10]
- Four of the Apocalypse (1975), a Spaghetti Western based in part on Harte's story.
- California Gold Rush (1981), a Schick Sunn adaptation by Thomas C. Chapman that stars Ken Curtis and Robert Hays[11]