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The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis is a 2021 British biographical drama film written and directed by Norman Stone, based on the 2016 stage play, C.S. Lewis on Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert, by Max McLean [2] (which itself was based on Lewis' 1955 memoir Surprised by Joy). [1]
You Pay Your Money is a 1957 British 'B' [1] crime drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton and Honor Blackman. [2] It was written by Michael Cronin and Rogers. Plot
In British slang, "spooks" are spies; in the US "spook" is an offensive term for African Americans. TV series Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* The BBC considered "Ninja" inappropriate for children. However, the more recent Channel 5 (UK) version used the word Ninja. [3] Film One Wild Night: Career Opportunities* Film ...
The Convert is a 2023 historical drama film directed by Lee Tamahori, and starring Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne and Te Kohe Tuhaka. The script for the film was written by Tamahori and Shane Danielsen from a story by Michael Bennett based on the 2011 novel Wulf by Hamish Clayton.
Numerous Hollywood films have a British dimension (based on British people, stories or events), many of which have had enormous worldwide commercial success. Two of the top eight highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic (1997), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of ...
The highest earners at the box-office are mostly American films and UK-US co-productions. Sequels, remakes and adaptations dominate, with seven films in the Harry Potter franchise, five Star Wars instalments, the five Daniel Craig James Bond films, five films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Peter Jackson's first four Tolkien adaptations having earned in excess of £50 million.
The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, [6] the "golden age" of British cinema is usually thought to have occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors David Lean, [7] Michael Powell, [8] and Carol Reed [9] produced their most critically acclaimed works.