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===Cinema=== *The critically and commercially successful 1944 film ''[[It Happened Tomorrow]]'', nominated for two Oscars, credited "The Jest of Hahalaba" as one of its sources. *The short ''In the Twilight'', a 15-minute colour production from a short story of that name, directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], was showcased in the mid-1970s at the [[London Film Festival]]. *The short ''Nature and Time'', a 1976 colour production from a short story of that name, directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], starred [[Helen York]] and [[Paul Goodchild]].<ref>British Film Institute: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/105799 {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926224022/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/105799 |date=26 September 2012}}</ref> *The 22-minute colour film ''The Pledge'', from the short story "The Highwayman", directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], was released by Fantasy Films in 1981 and distributed by [[Twentieth Century Fox]], with music by [[Michael Nyman]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-the-pledge-1981-online |title=Watch The Pledge |website=BFI Player |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> *The 2008 film ''[[Dean Spanley]]'', adapted by [[Alan Sharp]] from the novella ''[[My Talks With Dean Spanley]]'', directed by [[Toa Fraser]] and produced by [[Matthew Metcalfe]] and Alan Harris, starred [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Sam Neill]], [[Jeremy Northam]] and [[Bryan Brown]]. *[[George Pal]] [[optioning|optioned]] the science fiction novel ''The Last Revolution'' in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP2.htm |title=The George Pal Site: "-Ographies" |website=awn.com |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> The short story "Charon" and the novel ''The King of Elfland's Daughter'' were among others optioned at various times, but none are believed to have reached production. Granada TV also bought options or rights for certain stories. *According to David Scott Diffrient, the 1998 British-US romantic [[comedy drama]] film ''[[Sliding Doors]]'', with some similar plot points, directed by [[Peter Howitt]], also had a Dunsanian link with that material and with ''If''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scott Diffrient |first=David |date=2014-12-30 |title=Alternate futures, contradictory pasts: Forking paths and cubist narratives in contemporary film |url=http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-20-first-release/alternate-futures-contradictory-pasts-forking-paths-and-cubist-narratives-in-contemporary-film/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Screening the Past |language=en-US}}</ref>
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