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 Deep (unfinished film) the documentary "Orson Welles: One-Man Band" (1995), which is included as a bonus on the DVD release of Welles' mockumentary "F for Fake". The Deep (unfinished film) The Deep is an unfinished film directed by Orson Welles, based on Charles Williams' novel "Dead Calm" (1963), which was later adapted as an eponymous 1989 film. Welles produced and wrote "The Deep", as well as played the role of Russ Brewer opposite Jeanne Moreau and Laurence Harvey. Welles worked on the film from 1966 to 1969. The film is incomplete; several major scenes were never shot, and portions of the soundtrack remain