Gordon Williams (writer) manager Tommy Docherty. In 1971, his novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" was controversially filmed as "Straw Dogs". Sam Peckinpah's cinematic treatment marked a watershed in the depiction of sexual violence in the cinema though the most controversial scenes are absent from the book. Other film work includes "The Man Who Had Power Over Women", from his own novel, and "Tree of Hands", as scriptwriter from a Ruth Rendell novel. Williams also wrote the book of Ridley Scott's film "The Duellists". In 1976 film producer Harry Saltzman employed Williams to rewrite the script for "The Micronauts". Although the film was
Waking the Dead (novel) Waking the Dead (novel) Waking the Dead is a 1986 novel by Scott Spencer. The book, Spencer's fourth, was adapted in 2000 into a film of the same name, starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly. The book is a love story about two passionate liberals with vastly different approaches to their ideologies: Fielding Pierce is a lawyer and aspiring politician, and Sarah Williams is a social activist who despises the political system. During a mission to assist Chilean refugees, Williams is killed by a terrorist car-bomb. Years later, Pierce is offered the Democratic candidacy for an Illinois congressional seat, but