Daphne du Maurier Now" (1973). Of the films, du Maurier often complained that the only ones she liked were Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now". Hitchcock's treatment of "Jamaica Inn" was disavowed by both director and author, due to a complete re-write of the ending to accommodate the ego of its star, Charles Laughton. Du Maurier also felt that Olivia de Havilland was wrongly cast as the anti-heroine of "My Cousin Rachel". "Frenchman's Creek" fared better in a lavish Technicolor version released in 1944. Du Maurier later regretted her choice of Alec Guinness as the lead in the film of "The
The Rose of Tibet is set at the time of the Chinese invasion in 1950. Graham Greene said of the novel: "I hadn’t realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read "The Rose of Tibet"", while Daphne du Maurier wrote: 'It has all the excitement of "King Solomon's Mines"' Author Barry Gifford considers this book the one he wishes he had written. He has written about it in his collection of essays "The Cavalry Charges" and has called it 'a genuine work of literature. I was immediately charmed by the device Davidson employed to entice the reader into believing