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".
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel) his way to Paris. When he discovers that he is being trailed by a Dutch police detective the man becomes more and more delusional, seeing himself as a master criminal and certain that the woman he has become involved with, his former employer's mistress, is genuinely interested in him, rather than the bag of stolen money he has carried with him from the Netherlands. The book was adapted for the film "The Man Who Watched Trains Go By" (1952) starring Claude Rains and Märta Torén and directed by Harold French. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel) The