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
The Year of the Hare (novel) which funded the 1995 English translation by Herbert Lomas. It was adapted twice into feature films: a 1977 Finnish film called "The Year of the Hare", and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called "Le Lièvre de Vatanen". The Year of the Hare (novel) The Year of the Hare () is a 1975 novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, decides to live with the hare in the wilderness. The novel has been translated into 29 languages including English, Bulgarian,