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
A Matter of Loaf and Death some suburb of America — and being told they're not going to understand a joke, or a northern saying." Regardless, Park changed the title from "Trouble at Mill" as he thought it was too obscure a Northern England colloquialism. As well as a final title that references "A Matter of Life and Death", the film also references "Batman", "Aliens" and "Ghost". Park said in an interview with the "Radio Times", "The BBC hardly gave a single note or instruction on the whole thing", and Park goes on to remark how it was better than his previous work with DreamWorks, "Curse