The playwas a success. Oneofits viewers was a youngBritish film editor named David Lean, who had Guinness reprisehisrolein the former's 1946 filmadaptationof the play.
Another notable success came in 1948 when he devised the make-up that Alec Guinness used to portray Fagin inDavid Lean's film of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.