* 1998 Black Coffee ( featuring Hercule Poirot, based on the 1930 play ' Black Coffee ')

* 1999 The Unexpected Guest ( based on the 1958 play The Unexpected Guest )

* 2000 Spider's Web ( based on the 1954 play Spider's Web )

The film was based on the stage play.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

A 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary and " A Kind of Alaska ", a 1985 play by Harold Pinter, were also based on Sacks ' book.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Some environmental and commercial strains B. coagulans may play a role in food spoilage of highly acidic, tomato based products.

In mid-2005, the play Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a dramatisation based on the Saville Inquiry, opened in London, and subsequently travelled to Derry and Dublin.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

* The 2011 radio play A Thousand Kisses was based on his life.

All three were based on a hit play The Squaw Man about a wrongly disgraced British aristocrat who settles in the Wild West.

His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist, entitled Red, White and Blacklisted ( 2003 ), produced in New York in 2003.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

* Trumbo, a 2007 documentary by Peter Askin based on Christopher Trumbo's stage play

The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

Yet it is not only Europe the play refers to.

In Plato's judgment, the arts play a meaningful role in society only in the education of the young, prior to the full development of their intellectual powers.

He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.

These were the years when people flocked to Manchester not only to play golf, which had come into vogue, but also to witness the Ekwanok Country Club tournaments.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play.

Comic Gary Morton signed to play the Living Room here Dec. 18, because that's the only time his heart, Lucille Ball, can come along.

But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".

At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.

This play, The Persians, is the only extant classical Greek tragedy concerned with recent history ( very few of that kind were ever written ) and it is a useful source of information about that period.

The argument continues that the only justification humanity could give for its continued existence would be the past creation and continued creation of things like a Shakespeare play, a Rembrandt painting or a Bach concerto.

George Martin, producer and arranger for The Beatles, warns arrangers about the intonation issues when only two like instruments play in unison.

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

Fay refuses to take her wig off, and confesses to him that this disguise, left over from a college play, is the only way she can break out of her rigid and cynical persona.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

In Great Britain, the only way in which the play was initially allowed to be given in London was in an adapted form made by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman and called Breaking a Butterfly.

Processes involved in acid deposition ( note that only SO < sub > 2 </ sub > and NO < sub > x </ sub > play a significant role in acid rain ).

A pitcher is only charged with the number of runners that reached base while he was pitching, and this does not include baserunners who reach base as the result of a fielder's choice play that removes an existing runner ; such a runner is charged to the pitcher whose baserunner has been removed by the fielder's choice play.