Straw Dogs (1971 film) days over schedule and $3 million over budget. Left with a limited number of directing jobs, Peckinpah was forced to travel to England to direct "Straw Dogs". Produced by Daniel Melnick, who had previously worked with Peckinpah on his 1966 television film "Noon Wine", the screenplay began from Gordon Williams' novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm", with Peckinpah saying "David Goodman and I sat down and tried to make something of validity out of this rotten book. We did. The only thing we kept was the siege itself". "Straw Dogs" drew inspiration from Robert Ardrey's books "African Genesis" and "The
Robert O'Connor (author) Robert O'Connor (author) Robert O'Connor (born 1959) is an American novelist, hailed as one of the most promising young American novelists and the author of a novel, "Buffalo Soldiers", the basis for the 2001 movie of the same name. O'Connor received a B.A. in English/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego, and an M.A. in English from Syracuse University. He currently teaches Advanced Fiction and Intermediate Screenwriting at SUNY Oswego. He is the author of a novel, 1993's "Buffalo Soldiers", which was adapted into the film of the same name. The literary magazine "Granta" called him