brass fanfare setting of "The War Prayer" at Old First Church in San Francisco. In 2006, the short film, War Prayer (2005), won the Best Director Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Harold Cronk directed the film and adapted the screenplay from Twain's "The War Prayer". In April 2007, a ten-minute, short film adaptation, entitled The War Prayer, was released by Lyceum Films. Written by Marco Sanchez and directed by Michael Goorjian, the adaptation starred Jeremy Sisto as "The Stranger" and Tim Sullivan as "The Preacher". That same year, the journalist and Washington Monthly president Markos Kounalakis directed and produced an animated short film based on Twain's piece, also entitled The War Prayer. Narrated by Peter Coyote, it starred Lawrence Ferlinghetti as the Minister and Eric Bauersfeld as the Stranger. References External links Full text on Wikisource November 1916 Harper's Monthly reference in Wikisource One act adaptation for the stage by Gerald P. Murphy Five-minute Reader's Theater Edition adaptation by Aaron Shepard The entire 2007 film adaptation on the Lyceum Films web site The entire 2007 animated short, in two parts, on YouTube The 96 page book published by Harper Collins Short stories by Mark Twain Short stories adapted into films Spanish–American War Anti-war works de:König Leopolds Selbstgespräch