Mulligan and Pakula followed "To Kill a Mockingbird" with five more films. "Love With the Proper Stranger" (1963), starred Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen. "Baby the Rain Must Fall" (1965) starred McQueen. "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965) starred Wood. "Up the Down Staircase" (1967) was based on a humorous novel by Bel Kaufman and starred Sandy Dennis as the schoolteacher Sylvia Barrett. "The Stalking Moon" (1968), based on a Western novel by T.V. Olsen and reuniting Mulligan and Pakula with Peck, this time in the role of Sam Varner, a scout who attempts to escort a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-Indian son to New Mexico after they are pursued by a bloodthirsty Apache.