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 (Holmes novel) of the cast of characters, almost as a mantra. In Britain "Go" was originally published as "The Beat Boys". The characters in "Go" are, as was common in beat generation literature, representations of the real people the author knew while writing the book. Go (Holmes novel) Go is a semi-autobiographical novel by John Clellon Holmes. (Holmes referred to the book as a "roman à clef".) It is considered to be the first published novel depicting the beat generation. Set in New York, it concerns the lives of a collection of characters largely based on the friends Holmes used to hang