Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
Imitation of Life (1959 film) performing a version of "Trouble of the World" at Annie's funeral service. Sirk's "Imitation of Life" premiered in Chicago on March 17, 1959, followed by Los Angeles on March 20 and New York City on April 17, then Universal put the film into general release on April 30. Though it was not well-reviewed upon its original release and was viewed as inferior to the original 1934 film version – many critics derided the film as a "soap opera," – "Imitation of Life" was the fourth-most successful motion picture of 1959, grossing $6.4 million. "Imitation of Life" was Universal-International's top-grossing film