The Go-Between (1971 film) envisaged Alec Guinness and Margaret Leighton in the leads and employed Nancy Mitford to write a script. L.P. Hartley later claimed Korda had no real intention to make a film of the book - he kept the rights hoping to re-sell them at a profit. Hartley says "I was so annoyed when I heard of this that I put a curse on him and he died, almost the next morning." Joseph Losey was interested in filming the novel. He tried to get financing for a version in 1963 after "The Servant" and says Pinter wrote "two thirds of a script".
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel) the Modern Library ranked "Go Tell It on the Mountain" 39th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. "Time Magazine" included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". Baldwin makes several references to the Bible in "Go Tell It on the Mountain," most importantly to the story of Ham, Noah’s son who saw his father naked one day. Noah consequently cursed Ham’s son Canaan to become the servant of Noah’s other sons. Baldwin refers to several other people and stories from the Bible, at one point alluding to