Kenneth Ross screenwrote "The Day of the Jackal" based on which author's 1971 novel?
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Kenneth Ross (screenwriter) Kenneth Ross is the Scottish-American screenwriter of the films "The Day of the Jackal" and "The Odessa File".
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The Day of the Jackal (film) The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
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Reginald Campbell Reginald Campbell (1894–1950) was a British writer. His novel "Poo Lorn of the Elephants" was filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1980 under the name "Tusk". Another novel, "Tiger Valley", was filmed in 1936 by Howard Bretherton as "The Girl from Mandalay". He described his personal experiences from Thailand in the book "Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s".
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The Towers of Silence The Towers of Silence is the 1971 novel by Paul Scott that continues his "Raj Quartet". It gets its title from the Parsi Towers of Silence where the bodies of the dead are left to be picked clean by vultures. The novel is set in the British Raj of 1940s India. It follows on from the storyline in the "The Day of the Scorpion".
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Kate Ross Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel.
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Bless the Beasts and Children (film) Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1971 film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Glendon Swarthout. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Bill Mumy (customarily credited then as “Billy” Mumy; this was one of the earliest known times he was credited as "Bill" Mumy) and Barry Robins.
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You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first "James Bond" film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.
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William Mulvihill William Patrick Mulvihill (June 25, 1923 – September 17, 2004) was an American author of several novels, most notable of which is the "New York Times" bestseller "The Sands of Kalahari", which was later adapted into the movie "Sands of the Kalahari" by Paramount during 1965.
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John Kruse John Kruse (1921–2004) was an English film and television screenwriter, director and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his work on ITC classic TV series "The Saint", as well as several films of the franchise, and as the author of the best-selling novel "Red Omega".
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The Golden Day The Golden Day (2011) is a young adult mystery novel by Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky. The novel is set in Australia in 1967.
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Marty Ross Marty Ross is a Scottish writer, best known for his audio dramas for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Big Finish Productions and for the Wireless Theatre Company and 3Dhorrorfi. He is author of the 'Tartan Noir' thriller novel "Aztec Love Song". He has had several plays performed on stage, mostly with an emphasis on Gothic horror and the surreal. He has dramatized stories by other Scottish writers such as James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his radio series "The Darker Side of the Border". Among his influences are the work of Hammer Films and British science fiction dramatist Nigel Kneale.
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The Day of the Dolphin (book) The Day of the Dolphin ("Un animal doué de raison" – lit. "A Sentient Animal") is a 1967 science fiction thriller novel by French novelist Robert Merle. The plot concerns dolphins that are trained to communicate with humans, and their use in warfare. The central character is a government scientist with similar ideas to those of John C. Lilly.
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Ian Stuart Black Ian Stuart Black (21 March 1915 – 13 October 1997) was a British novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Both his 1959 novel "In the Wake of a Stranger" and his 1962 novel about the Cyprus emergency, "The High Bright Sun", were made into films, Black writing the screenplays in each case.
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Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels "Norwood" (1966) and the classic Western "True Grit" (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of "True Grit" was released in 2010.
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Green Shadows, White Whale Green Shadows, White Whale is a 1992 novel by Ray Bradbury. It gives a fictionalized account of his journey to Ireland in 1953-1954 to write a screen adaptation of the novel "Moby-Dick" with director John Huston. Bradbury has said he wrote it after reading actress Katharine Hepburn's account of filming "The African Queen" with Huston in Africa. The title itself is a play on Peter Viertel's novel "White Hunter, Black Heart", which is also about Huston.
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I'm All Right Jack I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the novel "Private Life" by Hackney. The film is a sequel to the Boultings' 1956 film "Private's Progress" and Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson reprise their characters. Peter Sellers played one of his best-known roles, as the trades union shop steward Fred Kite and won a Bafta Best Actor Award. The rest of the cast included many well-known British comedy actors of the time.
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Black Eye (film) Black Eye is a 1974 action film produced by Pat Rooney, directed by Jack Arnold and starring Fred Williamson. The film was based on the novel "Murder on the Wild Side" (published in 1971) by Jeff Jacks.
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The Sea Wolf (1941 film) The Sea Wolf is a 1941 American black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel "The Sea Wolf" with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. The film was written by Robert Rossen and directed by Michael Curtiz.
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Night Without End Night Without End is a thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1959. The author has been complimented for the excellent depiction of the unforgiving Arctic environment; among others, the "Times Literary Supplement" gave it strongly favorable notices when it came out.
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Jack of Shadows Jack of Shadows is a science fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny. According to him, the name of the book (but not the titular character) was an homage to Jack Vance. In his introduction to the novel he mentioned that he tried to capture some of the exotic landscapes that are frequent in Vance's work. Zelazny wrote it in first draft, with no rewrites. The novel was serialized in the " Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1971 and published in book form that same year. It was nominated for a 1972 Hugo Award and finished #4 in the 1972 Locus Poll for Best Novel.
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The Eagle Has Landed (novel) The Eagle Has Landed is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1975. It was made into a film of the same name in 1976 starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Jenny Agutter and Robert Duvall. The plot has similarities with that of "Warn That Man" and "Went the Day Well?", both films made during the Second World War.
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The Runestaff The Runestaff is a novel by British author Michael Moorcock, and was first published in 1969 under the title "The Secret of the Runestaff".