Richard Brooks "Bite the Bullet" (1975) was Brooks' return to the western. He based his original screenplay on the endurance horse races popular at the turn of the century. In 1977, he released another controversial film, an adaptation of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." It starred Diane Keaton as a Catholic school teacher who searches for sexual satisfaction in singles bars. Brooks made the film on a tight budget, and its frank treatment of sex and its horrific storyline brought praise and condemnation and sold tickets. He ended his career with "Wrong Is Right" (1982), a satire about the
Thank You, Mr. Moto (novel) man who goes out of his way to make sure the Americans remain safe. The historian Michael Schneider observed that Mr. Moto novels show Japanese expansionism in a light that might appeal to many Americans and Mr. Moto as a “moderate” in the spectrum of Japanese politics. Chinese culture is shown as ancient and exotic, but Schneider concludes that it is "difficult to see the novels as doing anything more than buttressing prevailing racial and ethnic stereotypes." The novel was praised for its "vitality and vividness" and "swift action". This novel was used as the basis for the movie "Thank