With a new adaptation, by Edgar Wright, hitting theaters next month, now is a fine to revisit the first cinematic version of the 1982 novel by Stephen King (written as Richard Bachman). Set in a 2019 in which America has become a fascist state, the story takes its title from the country’s most popular television program, a deadly game show in which a convicted criminal is hunted for sport. But said convict is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, so things go a bit haywire. The screenplay by Steven E. de Souza (who co-wrote “Die Hard” and “48 HRS”) is a well-proportioned mixture of “They Live”-style science-fiction satire and muscular ’80s action and quips, orchestrated with panache by the director Paul Michael Glaser (also known as Starsky of the TV series “Starsky and Hutch”).