"Cry, The Beloved Country" has been filmed twice (in 1951 and 1995) and was the basis for the Broadway musical "Lost in the Stars" (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill). Paton's second and third novels, "Too Late the Phalarope" (1953) and "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" (1981), and his short stories, "Tales From a Troubled Land" (1961), all deal with the same racial themes that concerned the author in his first novel. "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" was built on parallel life stories, letters, speeches, news and records in legal proceedings, and mixed fictional and real-life characters, such as Donald Molteno, Albert Luthuli and Hendrik Verwoerd. The novel is categorised as historical fiction, as it gives an accurate account of the resistance movement in South Africa during the 1960s. "Paton attempts to imbue his characters with a humanity not expected of them. In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act. There are other Afrikaners, too, who are led by their consciences and not by rules, and regulations promulgated by a faceless, monolithic parliament."