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Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. [3] A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies, and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about those of another race.
The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama film based on the 2004 stage play The Sapphires by Tony Briggs, which is loosely based on a real-life 1960s girl group that included Briggs' mother and aunt. [4] The film is directed by Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Briggs.
The Thicket (novel), a 2013 novel by Joe R. Lansdale The Thicket (film) , a 2024 western film based on the novel The Thicket (album) , a 1998 album by David Grubbs
Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, [ 1 ] the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious , which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards .
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, [2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher , adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire .
Pages in category "Films based on works by Michael Morpurgo" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Thicket is a mystery/suspense novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. [1] [2] It was released by Mulholland Books on September 10, 2013. The title refers to Big Thicket, a heavily forested area in Southeast Texas. [3] This book was selected by the Library Journal as one of the best historical fiction books of 2013.
Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, five films from the low-budget Producers Releasing Corporation with Hugh Beaumont, a radio series under a variety of titles between 1944 and 1953 ...