Williams On Screen
While Williams is little known by the general American audience today, between 1960 and 1990 twelve of his novels were adapted for cinema or television in the United States, France, and Australia:
- All the Way – The 3rd Voice (1960); Peau de banane (Banana Peel) (1963)
- The Big Bite – Le Gros coup (1964)
- Aground – L' Arme à gauche (The Dictator's Guns) (1965)
- The Wrong Venus – Don't Just Stand There! (1968)
- Dead Calm – The Deep (1970—unfinished); Dead Calm (1989)
- The Diamond Bikini – Fantasia chez les ploucs (1971)
- Talk of the Town (uncredited) – Cannon (pilot) (1971)
- The Sailcloth Shroud – The Man Who Would Not Die (aka Target in the Sun) (1975)
- The Long Saturday Night – Vivement dimanche! (Confidentially Yours) (1983)
- Man on the Run – Mieux vaut courir (1989)
- Hill Girl – La Fille des collines (1990)
- Hell Hath No Fury – The Hot Spot (1990)
Of the preceding, Williams wrote the screenplays for Don't Just Stand There! and, with Nona Tyson, The Hot Spot. He is credited as co-screenwriter on Peau de banane and L' Arme à gauche. He also wrote the screenplay to The Pink Jungle (1968), adapting a novel by Alan Williams (no relation), and cowrote Les Félins (Joy House) (1964), adapting a novel by Day Keene.
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