sentences:  A film version, also titled "Uncle Silas" (though initially released in the United States as "The Inheritance"), was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947.It was directed by Charles Frank, with Derrick De Marney as Silas and Jean Simmons as the heroine (whose given name was changed from Maud to Carolyn).A feature-length British television adaptation was made for the Thames Television series "Mystery and Imagination" (1968).