David Lean a film adaptation of "A Passage to India" (1984), from E. M. Forster's 1924 novel of colonial conflicts in British-occupied India. Entirely shot on location in the sub-continent, this became his last completed film. He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits. Lean recruited long-time collaborators for the cast and crew, including Maurice Jarre (who won another Academy-Award for
The Bread-Winner (play) are a similar age to their Battle counterparts, fill the scenes in the Battles’ house at Golders Green in London. The play was in written in 1930 and first produced by Athole Stewart at the Vaudeville Theatre London on September 30 of the same year. Ronald Squire and Peggy Ashcroft played Charles and Judy Battle. The title format for the Vaudeville playbill, as reproduced in Who's Who in the Theatre, (Seventh edition, 1933) is "The Breadwinner". According to theatre archivist Robert Tanitch ("Peggy Ashcroft", Hutchinson, 1987, ), one of Peggy Ashcroft's lines, "Don't you know that since the war the