Richard Brooks adapted the work of which author for his film In Cold Blood?
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Fever Pitch (1985 film) Fever Pitch is a 1985 American drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, and written and directed by Richard Brooks. This turned out to be the final film for Brooks, director of such acclaimed pictures as "Blackboard Jungle", "Elmer Gantry", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "In Cold Blood". Co-starring in the film were Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett, John Saxon and Catherine Hicks. The original music score was composed by Thomas Dolby.
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In Cold Blood In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.
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Rosamond Lehmann Rosamond Nina Lehmann CBE (3 February 1901 – 12 March 1990, was an English novelist. Her first novel, "Dusty Answer" (1927), was a "succès de scandale"; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. Her novel "The Ballad and the Source" received particular critical acclaim, and her books "The Echoing Grove" and "The Weather in the Streets" were filmed, one version in 1983 with Michael York and Joanna Lumley which was the second time the BBC had filmed that book, but this version also included sections of " Invitation to the Waltz".
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Peter George (author) Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924 – 1 June 1966) was a British author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel "Red Alert", published initially with the title "Two Hours To Doom" with the pseudonym Peter Bryant. The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic movie "".
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The Carpathian Castle The Carpathian Castle (French: "Le Château des Carpathes" ) is a novel by Jules Verne first published in 1893. It is possible that Bram Stoker took inspiration from this for his 1897 novel "Dracula". Possibly Verne had been inspired by seeing the ruined Devín Castle near Bratislava during his boat travel on the Danube river.
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Richard Christian Matheson Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 critically hailed short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in his landmark short story collections "Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks" #1 bestseller "Dystopia" and "Zoopraxis". He is the author of the critically celebrated suspense novel "Created By" and Hollywood novella "The Ritual of Illusion", and was the editor of the commemorative book "Battleground".
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film) Dracula is a 1973 British television movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" written by Richard Matheson and directed by "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
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Ben Salisbury Notable television credits include the BAFTA nominated David Attenborough series "The Life of Mammals" and "Life in the Undergrowth", and the BAFTA-winning series "Life in Cold Blood". He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the Wildlife on One film "Operation Dung Beetle"
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Varys Varys is a fictional character in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation "Game of Thrones".
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The Thin Line (novel) The Thin Line, later re-issued as "Murder, My Love", is a 1951 crime novel by the British-Lebanese author Edward Atiyah. It was filmed twice, first as "The Stranger Within a Woman" by Naruse Mikio, 1966, and then by Claude Chabrol, as "Just Before Nightfall", 1971.
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Perry Edward Smith Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood". Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary of the Clutter family farmhouse.
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The Winter of Our Discontent The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's "Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York"".
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Blood Work (film) Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Connelly.
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The American (novel) The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family.
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James M. Cain James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Cain vehemently opposed labeling, but he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and is seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir". Several of his crime novels inspired successful movies.
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Created By Created By is a 1993 horror novel, which was written by Richard Christian Matheson.
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Blackwater (Game of Thrones) "Blackwater" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series "Game of Thrones". The episode is written by George R. R. Martin, the author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels of which the series is an adaptation, and directed by Neil Marshall, his directorial debut for the series.
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The Night of the Generals The Night of the Generals is a 1967 Franco-British-American Second World War crime mystery film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Sam Spiegel. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret. The screenplay by Joseph Kessel and Paul Dehn was loosely based on the beginning of the novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. The writing credits also include the line "based on an incident written by James Hadley Chase". Gore Vidal is said to have contributed to the screenplay, but was not credited.
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Ashes in the Snow Ashes in the Snow is a World War II drama based on the best-seller "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys.
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Blood in the Water (film) Blood in the Water is a television film that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2009. It was directed by Richard Bedser. It is based on a true-life series of shark attacks that became the inspiration for Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws". It was the season premiere of Shark Week on August 2 for the 2009 season by "Blood in the Water".
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Daniel Wallace (author) Daniel Wallace (born 1959) is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel "", the basis for the Tim Burton film "Big Fish" and the Broadway musical of the same name. His other books include "Ray in Reverse" and "The Watermelon King". His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."
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Fever of the Bone Fever of the Bone is a novel written by noted Scottish crime author Val McDermid. It was published by Little, Brown in Great Britain (2009) and HarperCollins for the United States and Canada (2010), and is the sixth novel in the series featuring psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan. Several of the books in this series have been adapted into the television series "Wire in the Blood", starring Robson Green as Tony Hill and Hermione Norris as Carol Jordan.