Memorization system for spells The Dying Earth series, by Jack Vance, especially his story "Mazarian the Magician." Literary Sources of D&D: Compiled by Aardy R. You are definitely right about it being hokey. Watching this now thanks to magic of Netflix streaming. It's a decent movie in its own right but also worth checking out if you're into D&D history, especially considering how D&D-ish the characters are, more than a decade before D&D was published. Near the end of the movie, there's a great wizard's duel with some very D&D-ish spells, including several more magic missiles and a fireball, as well as more traditional wizard magic like levitation and turning scarves into snakes. Early in the film you can see a magic missile in action - the first time I've ever seen what is obviously a DYD-style magic missile happening in a non-D&D media source. I've heard it said that Gygax was a fan of this movie, and you can see its application to D&D once you watch it.
I also recently watched the 1963 film "The Raven" (see ) which is a hokey sorcerer film that is very clearly the origin of several D&D spells. Here's a post from Tavis's blog on the displacer beast and rust monster, which seems to have originated in some very non-D&D places: I thought it might be interesting to start a thread about other literary/cultural sources that seem to be the origin of Gygax and Arneson's original ideas.
It's a good book in its own right but also interesting from a "D&D history" perspective because it seems to be the origin of the D&D shadow rules. I'm reading Merritt's "Creep, Shadow, Creep" from Appendix N right now.
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