Film Adaptations
The Pink Jungle is an adaptation of Snake Water. The film, which starred James Garner, Eva Renzi and George Kennedy was neither a critical or financial success. Williams deemed it the worst film he'd ever seen in his life. He complained that the film-makers took the characters' names and nothing else from his novel.
Dirk Bogarde had hoped to make a film of Barbouze co-starring Orson Welles with Bryan Forbes directing, but this came to nothing.
A proposed film of Long Run South, to have been filmed on location in 1967, never materialized.
Richard Burton purchased film rights to The Tale of the Lazy Dog. Shillingford Productions currently holds film rights.
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