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
The Christian (1914 film) West 42nd Street, for the purpose of exclusively showing their own films, opening with "The Christian". A new edition of it was made in 1917 by the Greater Vitagraph (V-L-S-E, Incorporated). The Christian (1914 film) The Christian (1914) is a silent film drama, directed by Frederick A. Thomson, and starring Earle Williams and Edith Storey. The film is based on the novel "The Christian" by Hall Caine, published in 1897, the first British novel to reach the record of one million copies sold. The novel was adapted for the stage, opening on Broadway at the Knickerbocker Theatre 10 October 1898.