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
Jacob the Liar Jacob the Liar Jacob the Liar is a novel written by the East German Jewish author Jurek Becker published in 1969. The German original title is "Jakob der Lügner". Becker was awarded the Heinrich-Mann Prize (1971) and the Charles Veillon Prize (1971) after the publication of his bestseller. The novel was made into two films, "Jacob the Liar" (1975) by Frank Beyer, which was nominated for "Best foreign language film" at the Academy Awards, and "Jakob the Liar" (1999), a Hollywood production starring Robin Williams. "Jacob the Liar" was first translated into English by Melvin Kornfeld in 1975, but without