"film was ""The Graduate"" (1967), starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. It became the highest-grossing film of 1967 and one of the biggest grossing films in history up to that date. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with Nichols winning as Best Director. In 2007, it was ranked #17 in ""AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)"". However, getting the film made was difficult for Nichols, who, while noted for being a successful Broadway director, was still an unknown in Hollywood. Producer Lawrence Turman, who wanted only Nichols to direct it, was continually"
"1963, foreshadowing many of the social tensions of the 1960s which the book would come to represent. Through this novel, the character of ""archetypal seductive older woman"" Mrs. Robinson has found a permanent niche in American cultural history. The novel was made into a hugely successful film in 1967 by Mike Nichols. Webb has stated that he never felt comfortable with the attention the movie brought him because he felt it distracted from his status as a serious artist. Webb sold the film rights for a one-off payment reported to be $20,000. He was rarely associated with the movie's publicity"
"and events, to make the books more appealing to a general audience. The 21-page manuscript that Ness wrote for the book was a more trustworthy source and only included the real events that Ness experienced during his career. His manuscript is housed in the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The book was adapted in multiple media and inspired many additional works. The best-known eponymous adaptations include the 1959 TV series ""The Untouchables"" starring Robert Stack as Ness and narrated by Walter Winchell and the 1987 film ""The Untouchables"" by Brian De Palma starring Kevin Costner"
"that Ness wrote for the book was a more trustworthy source and only included the real events that Ness experienced during his career. Ness's manuscript is housed in the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The book was adapted in multiple media and inspired many additional works. The best-known eponymous adaptations include the 1959 TV series ""The Untouchables"" starring Robert Stack as Ness and narrated by Walter Winchell, the 1987 film ""The Untouchables"" by Brian De Palma starring Kevin Costner as Ness and featuring Sean Connery and Robert De Niro, and the short-lived 1993 TV series"
"Charles Wood, and Dennis Potter. It was also at this time that he wrote ""The Waiters"", a stage play, directed and produced by Giles Havergal, and ""The Match"", a television play directed by Don Leaver for ABC-TV. In 1967, he wrote the screenplay for Privilege. Bogner’s breakthrough novel, the first to hit the bestsellers lists was ""Divorce"", in 1966. A publisher in the United States picked it up, renamed it ""Seventh Avenue"" and published it in 1967 where it soon made the New York Times Bestseller’s list and was eventually made into a television miniseries in 1977. With the success"
"weak. The chronics are patients who will never be cured. Many of the chronics are elderly and/or in vegetative states. ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" is one of America's most challenged and banned novels. The novel was adapted into a 1963 play, starring Kirk Douglas (who purchased the rights to produce it for the stage and motion pictures) as McMurphy and Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit. A film adaptation, starring Jack Nicholson, and co-produced by Michael Douglas was released in 1975. The film won five Academy Awards. The characters of Nurse Ratched and Chief Bromden appear as recurring characters"
"book, ""In Cold Blood"", which was serialized in ""The New Yorker"" magazine in 1965 and first published in book form in 1966. Capote actually began work on the book several days after he read a news article in a New York paper in 1959 about the murders. The best-selling book, in turn, spawned several filmed versions of the story: director Richard Brooks' theatrical feature film ""In Cold Blood"" in 1967 starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe, and a two-part 1996 TV miniseries adaptation starring Eric Roberts, Anthony Edwards and Sam Neill that aired on network TV in 1996."
"weeks. With a total of 65 weeks on the list, the book became the best selling novel of 1966. By the time of Susann's death in 1974, it had entered the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" as the best selling novel in publishing history, with more than 17 million copies sold. By 2016, the book had sold more than 31 million copies. In 1967, the book was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Mark Robson (""Peyton Place""), and starring Barbara Parkins (as Anne), Patty Duke (Neely), Paul Burke (Lyon), Sharon Tate (Jennifer), and Susan Hayward (Helen)."
"1954; Thomas Hardy's ""Under the Greenwood Tree"", 1936 and ""Tess"", 1969; Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"", 1952; Charles and Mary Lamb's ""Tales from Shakespeare"", 1954; Jack London's ""Call of the Wild"", 1955; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""Silver Blaze"", 1958; Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", c. 1959; Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", 1961; Jane Austen's ""Emma"", 1965 and ""Persuasion"", 1968; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' ""The Yearling"", 1965; Eleanor Farjeon's ""The Silver Curlew"", 1968; Walter de la Mare's ""Stories from the Bible"", 1970. ""Fuyu no Yado"" (Polish ""Zimowa kwatera"") trans. Ewelina Tchórzewska-Adamowska, Książka i Wiedza. 1973 ""Nichi-Doku Taiko Kyogi"" (""The Japan-Germany Athletic Games"")"
"several episodes of ""Wagon Train"". Webb is credited as composer or arranger on more than 200 films, and received Academy Award nominations for ""Quality Street"" (1937), ""My Favorite Wife"" (1940), ""I Married a Witch"" (1942), ""Joan of Paris"" (1942), ""The Fallen Sparrow"" (1943), ""The Fighting Seabees"" (1944), and ""The Enchanted Cottage"" (1945). His piano concerto from ""The Enchanted Cottage"" was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff, in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945. In 1961, a house fire destroyed Webb's manuscripts including film scores and unpublished concert music, after which Webb ceased composing. Webb"
"book was the basis for the 1974 television film ""Savages"", starring Andy Griffith as Madec and Sam Bottoms as Ben, and the 2014 film ""Beyond the Reach"", starring Michael Douglas as Madec and Jeremy Irvine as Ben. Deathwatch (novel) Deathwatch is an American 1972 novel written by Robb White. The book was awarded the 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. Its plot features a skilled and successful hunter and lawyer, Madec, who receives a rare permit to shoot bighorn sheep in California's Mojave Desert for seven days. He hires a timid college student"
"""The Sunday Telegraph"" published a story that the novel was to be published in June 2007 and reported Webb having moved to Eastbourne. ""Home School"" was published by Hutchinson in June 2007. and by St. Martin's Press, January 2008, . Among Webb's other work, the novel ""The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker"" was made into a feature film with Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus, and his novel ""New Cardiff"" was made into a film entitled ""Hope Springs"". It was reported in 1992 by ""The Washington Post"" that Webb was working on a new book entitled ""Lies"". As of 2013 the"
"""The Junkers""; the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for ""Monk Dawson""; the Thomas More Medal for ""Alive""; the Enid McLeod Award for ""The Free Frenchman""; and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ""A Season in the West"". Read’s novels ""A Married Man"" (1984) and ""The Free Frenchman"" (1988) were adapted for television; ""Alive"" was made into a feature film by the director Frank Marshal in 1993; and ""Monk Dawson"" by Tom Waller in 1998. Read is best known for his non-fiction book """" which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in"
"Horticultural Society and owner of the Bodnant Garden in North Wales. Nichols made one appearance on film. In 1931, he appeared in ""Glamour"", directed by Seymour Hicks and Harry Hughes, and he played the small part of the Hon. Richard Wells. The film is now lost. In 1934, Nichols wrote a bestselling book advocating pacifism, ""Cry Havoc!"" By 1938, he had abandoned his pacifism; he later supported the British campaign in World War II. He went to school at Marlborough College and proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union and editor of ""Isis"". He"
"book form in 1965. Ironically, Mitchell was himself plagued with writer's block for the next three decades, and was never able to publish another book. Mitchell's pieces on Gould were later collected along with many of his other prominent works in the volume ""Up in the Old Hotel"", published in 1992. Mitchell's stories on Gould were adapted for the screen and directed by film auteur Stanley Tucci. The film was released in 2000 as an independent starring Ian Holm as Gould, Tucci as Mitchell, and Hope Davis as Mitchell's wife, with Susan Sarandon and Steve Martin in supporting roles. The"
"approached him to write a play for the National Theatre, Nichols offered them the slightly revised work, retitled ""The National Health"". It premiered in 1969 and proved to be a critical and commercial success, named Best New Play by the Evening Standard. The BBC then asked Nichols if he would like to adapt the play for a television production. In 1973, Nichols adapted his play for a film version directed by Jack Gold. It starred Jim Dale, Bob Hoskins, Lynn Redgrave, Donald Sinden, Clive Swift, Mervyn Johns, Eleanor Bron, Gillian Barge and Colin Blakely. It won the Evening Standard British"
"two films for Burt Lancaster and Robert Aldrich: ""Apache"" (1954) and ""Vera Cruz"" (1954). He wrote episodes of ""The Millionaire"" and ""Cheyenne"" and ""Illegal"" (1955) with Edgar G. Robinson. Lancaster hired Webb to do ""Trapeze"" (1956). He also wrote ""The Big Country"" (1958) and ""Pork Chop Hill"" (1959). Webb received acclaim for his script for ""Cape Fear"" (1962) and especially ""[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]"" (1962). Webb won an Oscar for the latter. Less well received were ""[[Kings of the Sun]]"" (1963) for the [[Mirisch Brothers]] and ""[[Cheyenne Autumn]]"" (1964) for John Ford. He wrote"
"Charles Dickens novel ""Oliver Twist"". After directing several contributions to the BBC's ""Wednesday Play"" anthology series, Ken Loach began his feature film career with the social realist ""Poor Cow"" (1967) and ""Kes"" (1969). Meanwhile, the controversy around Peter Watkins ""The War Game"" (1965), which won the Best Documentary Film Oscar in 1967, but had been suppressed by the BBC who had commissioned it, would ultimately lead Watkins to work exclusively outside Britain. American studios cut back on British productions, and in many cases withdrew from financing them altogether. Films financed by American interests were still being made, including Billy Wilder's"
"The book was unsuccessfully marketed to adults for several years before being tested at schools, where it became a mainstay. A movie of the same name was made in 1974, starring Beverly Garland, Stewart Peterson and James Whitmore. It was remade in 2003. Southern comedian and folk storyteller Jerry Clower released his record of ""The Coon Hunt"", a comic tale of a Mississippi coon hunt gone wrong, in the early 1970s. It became popular almost immediately, launching Clower's career, and remained his best-known work, in addition to bringing over $1 million in sales and ultimately becoming a platinum record for"
"different from the novel's. It inspired four sequels, a television series, an animated series, a 2001 remake of the original title by Tim Burton, and a 2011 reboot, ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"", directed by Rupert Wyatt. The original series of five films (1968–1973) have become cult classics. Boulle, who had thought his novel to be unfilmable, was taken by surprise at the worldwide success and impact of the film. He wrote a script for a sequel titled ""Planet of the Men"", but the producers of the original film turned it down. The second film, ""Beneath the Planet"
"they begin to flesh out the plan, it becomes clear that they need some ""professional assistance"" and a chance encounter with Chib Calloway, a local gangster who Mike went to school with, fulfils that need. A television film of the book has been produced, starring Douglas Henshall as Mike Mackenzie, Ken Collard as Allan Cruickshank and Stephen Fry as Robert Gissing. Filming started in Edinburgh in April 2012, and the programme was aired on Boxing Day on ITV. Rankin's 2002 collection of short stories, Beggars Banquet, includes a story ""Herbert in Motion"" (originally published 1996, 1997) whose plot is also"
"as a writer/director. His first real taste of writing success was the screenplay for the 1967 counterculture film ""The Trip"" (directed by Corman), which starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. After first reading the script, Fonda told Nicholson he was totally impressed by the writing and felt it could become a great film. However, he was disappointed with how the film turned out, and blamed the editing which turned it into a ""predictable"" film, and said so publicly. ""I was livid"", he recalls. Nicholson also co-wrote, with Bob Rafelson, the movie ""Head"", which starred The Monkees. He also arranged the"
"Going, Gone"" and was going to write the script but no film resulted. A story of his""Fugitive from Love"", was filmed as ""Woman in Hiding"" (1950). Webb signed a contract for Warner Bros for whom he wrote the Westerns ""Montana"" (1950) with Errol Flynn, ""Raton Pass"" (1951), and ""The Big Trees"" (1952) with Kirk Douglas. He also wrote ""Close to My Heart"" (1951) based on his own novel, ""Operation Secret"" (1952), ""The Iron Mistress"" (1952) for Alan Ladd, ""The Charge at Feather River"" (1953) a 3-D film, and ""Phantom of the Rue Morgue"" (1954). Webb had a big hit with"
"and Elizabeth Milhous, the great-grandparents she shares with President Nixon. ""The Friendly Persuasion"" (1945) is West's most well-known work. ""New York Times"" book reviewer Orville Prescott called it ""as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches... There have been plenty of louder and more insistent books this year, but few as sure and mellow as ""The Friendly Persuasion."""" The novel was adapted into the 1956 movie ""Friendly Persuasion,"" starring Gary Cooper and directed by William Wyler. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. ""To See the Dream,"" an"
"Beach"", directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire. Based on the eponymous novel by Nevil Shute, the film deals with the citizens of Australia as they await radioactive fallout, a result of a catastrophic nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere. The French author Stefan Wul's 1957 novel ""Niourk"" provided a portrait of New York after World War III. The 1959 novel ""Alas, Babylon"" depicted the effects of nuclear war on a small town in Florida; a television adaptation was broadcast in 1960. ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel about life after a Third"
"his adversaries, Sherman must resort to increasingly violent action to turn the tables. The story culminates in a violent struggle above the streets of Amsterdam to save the life of his surviving female operative, not knowing whether anyone they meet can really be trusted. The ""New York Times"" called the book ""one of the best in the Greene-Ambler-MacInnes tradition... the writing is as crisp as a sunny winter morning"". The book became a best seller. Puppet on a Chain later appeared in film as a 1972 movie directed by Geoffrey Reeve. The 1976 super hit Bollywood movie Charas (literally Narcotics"
"adults as well as children. The description of the experience of swinging on a rope swing at the farm is an often cited example of rhythm in writing, as the pace of the sentences reflects the motion of the swing. In 2000, ""Publishers Weekly"" listed the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time. ""Charlotte's Web"" was adapted into an animated feature by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel, """", in the U.S. in 2003 (Universal released the film internationally). A live-action film version of E. B. White's original story was released in"
"their behalf, with the following inscription: Patterson considered the bowl to be his most highly prized and hardest won trophy. In 1907, he published his first book, ""The Man-eaters of Tsavo"", which documented his adventures during his time there. It was the basis for three films; ""Bwana Devil"" (1953), ""Killers of Kilimanjaro"" (1959) and the 1996 Paramount Pictures film, ""The Ghost and the Darkness"", starring Val Kilmer (as Patterson) and Michael Douglas (as the fictional character ""Remington""). In 1924, after speaking at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, Patterson agreed to sell the Tsavo lion skins and"
"Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir. Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including ""Bringing Up Baby"" (1938), ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), ""Scarlet Street"" (1945), ""And Then There Were None"" (1945), ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" (1945), ""Pinky"" (1949) and ""The Tin Star"" (1957). Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received for ""The Informer"", due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony. He served as president of the Screen"
"The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award (the top prize for crime and spy fiction in Britain) as well as the Authors' Club First Novel Award. It was filmed as ""Hot Enough for June"" (1964), with Dirk Bogarde in the role of Whistler. His second novel ""The Rose of Tibet"" (1962) was equally well received. ""A Long Way to Shiloh"" (1966) won Davidson his second Gold Dagger, and he achieved a third with ""The Chelsea Murders"" (1978). ""The Chelsea Murders"" was also adapted for television as part of Thames TV's ""Armchair Thriller"" series in 1981. Davidson then"
"been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD (""Bernstein and Voltaire""), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version. In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy ""Chalk"" as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series. Wells' last book, ""House of Lords"", was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system. From 1982, Wells was"
"letters, essays and books. His four books, ""Cell 2455, Death Row"" (1954), ""Trial by Ordeal"" (1955), ""The Face of Justice"" (1957) and ""The Kid Was a Killer"" (1960), became bestsellers. He sold the rights to ""Cell 2455, Death Row"" to Columbia Pictures, which made a 1955 film of the same name, directed by Fred F. Sears, with William Campbell as Chessman. Chessman's middle name, Whittier, was used as the surname of his alter ego protagonist in the film. The manuscript of his fourth book, ""The Kid Was a Killer"", was seized by San Quentin warden Harley O. Teets in 1954"
"well as the enemy's soldiers and helicopters. ""The Times"" called the book ""a fiercely masochistic accomplishment"" and concluded another review as follows: In 1970 the novel was made into the film a film directed by Joseph Losey with Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell in the two main roles. According to ""The Times"", England had been working on a second novel provisionally entitled ""The Other Woman"", but it is unclear whether this book ever saw the light of day. England's other significant work was the play ""Conduct Unbecoming"". First staged in May 1969 at the Theatre Royal in Bristol, the story"