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  2. The Signalman (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Signalman is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written by Andrew Davies, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story "The Signal-Man" (1866) by Charles Dickens, and first aired on BBC1 on 22 December 1976, the earliest airdate in the series relative to ...

  3. A Ghost Story for Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The Signalman is perhaps the most critically acclaimed. Simon Farquhar suggests that the film is the first evidence of Andrew Davies's gift as an adaptor of literary fiction: "despite an extremely arduous shoot, Davies and Clarke's fog-wreathed, flame-crackling masterpiece manages something the production team could never have imagined: it's ...

  4. Category:Films based on works by Charles Dickens - Wikipedia

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    Our Mutual Friend (1976 TV serial) R. Rich Man's Folly; The Riddle (film) S. The Signalman (film) This page was last edited on 25 September 2021, at 13:46 (UTC ...

  5. The Signal-Man - Wikipedia

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    "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each ...

  6. A Warning to the Curious (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Warning to the Curious is a short film, the second of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas. [1] Written, produced, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story of the same name by M. R. James, first published in the collection A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) and first aired on BBC1 on 24 ...

  7. Stigma (1977 film) - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, to mark the 150th anniversary of M. R. James' birth, "Stigma" was released on DVD by the BFI alongside "The Signalman" (1976) and "The Ice House" (1978) in the same release, and the entire run of A Ghost Story for Christmas from 1971-2010 was released in a DVD box set, which was updated the following year to include additional material.

  8. Opinion - Our media is broken, and our nation will suffer the ...

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    As Howard Beale declared in the 1976 classic “Network,” television “can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world.

  9. List of films: S - Wikipedia

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    The Signalman (1976) Signature Move (2017) Le Signe du Lion (1962) Signore & Signori (1965) ... Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) Somers Town (2008) Somersault (2004)