Ken Loach directed Black Jack, a 1979 British period children's adventure film based on the Leon Garfield novel. It is set in 1750 in Yorkshire and follows Tolly (Stephen Hirst), a young lad, and his adventures with a huge French guy (Jean Franval), the titular Black Jack, and Belle, a young English girl (Louise Cooper). At the Cannes Film Festival, it received the Critics' Award (1979).