A Matter of Life and Death (film) afterward. David Niven was a fan of chess. Peter and June play chess while they await Dr Reeves. Then Conductor 71 "borrows" a chess book Peter has accidentally knocked off the table, Alekhine's "My Best Games of Chess". After the trial is won, Conductor 71 throws the book from the stairway; June finds it in his jacket pocket "to serve the 'was it a hallucination or did it really happen?' motif of the film", according to Mig Greengard. He also noted, "Lots of chess in movies past and present, but I can't recall another prominent appearance of a real chess
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud get a new beagle. A film adaptation starring Zac Efron, Amanda Crew and Charlie Tahan began production in 2009. Kim Basinger played Charlie and Sam's mother. The film was produced by Marc Platt and directed by Burr Steers. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a 2004 novel by Ben Sherwood. It is a fictional fable about an extraordinary experience of a man called Charlie St. Cloud who is resuscitated following a car accident that kills his brother. Charlie St. Cloud (age 15) and Sam (12) are two brothers with