Benjamin Britten the apex of his reputation: it was almost universally hailed as a masterpiece." Shostakovich told Rostropovich that he believed it to be "the greatest work of the twentieth century". In 1967 the BBC commissioned Britten to write an opera specially for television. "Owen Wingrave" was based, like "The Turn of the Screw", on a ghost story by Henry James. By the 1960s Britten found composition much slower than in his prolific youth; he told the 28-year-old composer Nicholas Maw, "Get as much done now as you can, because it gets much, much more difficult as you grow older." He did
The Turn of the Screw "Através da Sombra" ("Through the Shadow", 2016). "The Others" (2001) is not an adaptation but has some themes in common with James's novella. In 2018, director Floria Sigismondi filmed an adaptation of the novella, called "The Turning", on the Kilruddery Estate in Ireland. Television films have included a 1959 American adaptation as part of "Ford Startime" directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman; the West German "Die sündigen Engel" ("The Sinful Angel", 1962), a 1974 adaptation directed by Dan Curtis, adapted by William F. Nolan; a French adaptation entitled "Le Tour d'écrou" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1974); a