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More than a few teleplays in the series were later filmed as theatrical motion pictures, including Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Helen Morgan Story, Days of Wine and Roses and Judgment at Nuremberg. Seven Against the Wall was scripted by Howard Browne, who later reworked his teleplay into the screenplay for Roger Corman's 1967 movie, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Three of the actors in the Playhouse 90 production reprised their roles for the Corman film: Celia Lovsky, Milton Frome and Frank Silvera.
In at least one case, the reverse was true; William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life starring Jackie Gleason had been a James Cagney film of the same title ten years earlier, and used one of the original cast members from the film in a supporting role.
An indifferently received TV movie production of In the Presence of Mine Enemies, starring Armin Mueller-Stahl in the Charles Laughton role, was shown on cable TV in 1997 by Showtime.
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