The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists into a 3-D stop-motion animated film released on March 28, 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the director of "Chicken Run", with the script written by the book's author Gideon Defoe. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is the first book in The Pirates! series by Gideon Defoe dealing with a hapless crew of pirates. It was published in 2004 by Orion Books (). The book was adapted into a stop-motion film by Aardman Animations. The book is set in 1837, and follows the adventures of "The Pirate Captain" and his crew
Whom the Gods Love (1942 film) portrays the composer as a pioneering visionary. The title refers to Mozart's middle name Amadeus (Latin for "love God") and to the aphorism "he whom the gods love, dies young" (Latin: "") from Plautus' "Bacchides", lines 816–17, and earlier Greek sources, including Homer's mention of Trophonius; Mozart died at the age of 35. A British film of the same title had been released in 1936. Whom the Gods Love (1942 film) Whom the Gods Love (German:Wen die Götter lieben) is a 1942 Austrian historical musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff and Winnie Markus.