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 Best of Everything (novel) York. The Best of Everything (novel) The Best of Everything (1958) is Rona Jaffe's first novel. It is the story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. The novel was one of the first to be bought for film adaptation before the manuscript had been edited so the film company would be involved in the marketing of the book. It was also one of the first novels to use the author as a marketing tool—complete with full-color jacket photography of author Rona Jaffe by photographer Philippe Halsman. In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of