Anthony Havelock-Allan production was a film adaptation of Coward's 1939 play This Happy Breed, which was produced by Coward, directed by Lean, and shot by Neame. All three partners — Havelock-Allan, Lean and Neame — collaborated on the script. The exact same combination of talents created the 1945 film adaptation of Coward's comedy "Blithe Spirit". The quartet then produced the classic "Brief Encounter", with Havelock-Allan and Neame sharing producing duties with Coward, with Coward helping write the script, an adaption of his 1936 one-act play "Still Life". The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival while lead Celia
Post Mortem (Coward play) "the play is outstanding as a polemical, vitriolic attack on British disregard for World War I victims". When the play was staged in London in 1992, the critical response was mixed. "The Times" and "The Independent" were hostile. Benedict Nightingale of "The Times" wrote, "It is the sort of anti-war play you might expect from someone who never swapped a shot in anger and at some level feels guilty for having survived the slaughter: shrill, awkward... It is just the sort of didactic plod that Coward hated when others were writing; and with good reason. "The Independent" praised the production,