![]() My screenplay, 'CHILDREN OF THE FIRE' is STILL making the rounds and I hope one day it will be picked up. I could have filed a law suit making a claim for infringement, but you seldom win those and you are 'black-balled' by ALL the production companies then. Plot summary edit Philip Stenning is a commercial pilot, trained during the First World War. The events of the novel occur, in part, around the Isles of Scilly. It was originally published in 1926 by Cassell & Co, then republished in 1951 by William Heinemann. I wrote the screenplay after hearing the story, and it went the rounds of Hollywood production companies in 1978-84 - then, THIS film came out in 1990 - with some very, very strong similarities - and my agent confessed that the company that produced the film for CBS and Proctor and Gamble, was indeed one of the companies that had my script. Marazan is the first published novel by the British author Nevil Shute. He stole a Nazi plane on the coast of either France, or Belgium, the story, or rumor went, after being assisted by the Belgian underground, and flew it to England. ![]() Army Air Corps in England, about an American officer that rescued a group of orphan children after his B-17 was shot down over Belgium. I wrote a very similar screenplay in 1978 based on either a true story, or a story that was circulating amongst the 8th U. Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. ![]()
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