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 House of the Dead (novel) than their real-life counterparts. "The House of the Dead" was Dostoevsky’s only work that Leo Tolstoy revered. In 1927–1928, Leoš Janáček wrote an operatic version of the novel, with the title "From the House of the Dead". It was his last opera. In 1932, the novel was adapted to a film, directed by Vasili Fyodorov and starring Nikolay Khmelyov. The House of the Dead (novel) The House of the Dead (, "Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma") is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal "Vremya" by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian