The Lady in the Van "The Lady in the Van" was greenlit on 3 June 2014, with TriStar Productions and BBC Films working together to make the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's West End hit. TriStar won the film rights to handle worldwide distribution, while the BBC was the first to show the film on television in the UK. The involvement of Maggie Smith and Nicholas Hytner was announced simultaneously with the film, but they were attached to the project as early as 9 May (coincidentally Bennett's 80th birthday). Both of them had collaborated with Bennett in the past; Hytner on "The Madness of King
The Lady and the Hooligan seeks revenge with the help of his father and some of his friends. The hooligan is stabbed to death in a fight. Before dying, he asks his mother to call the schoolmistress. After the schoolmistress has kissed him on the lips, he closes his eyes and dies. On 1 May (May Day), 1919, the film was shown in mass viewings in Moscow and Leningrad. The film includes "fast-paced editing and (limited) shot-reverse-shot editing patterns." The Lady and the Hooligan The Lady and the Hooligan (original title: ) is a 1918 Russian silent film co-directed by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeni Slavinsky.