became high-profile Hollywood feature films, most of them dealing with quintessentially American themes and characters. Walter Chaw writes of Sharp's screenplays from this period, "On the strength of his scripts for The Hired Hand, Ulzana's Raid, and Night Moves, Scottish novelist Alan Sharp seems well at home with the better-known, more highly regarded writers and directors of the New American Cinema. Sharp's screenplays are marked by a narrative complexity and situations gravid with implication and doom." Trevor Johnston has written that "There's an argument to suggest that a certain seventysomething Scot could well be Britain's greatest living screenwriter. Much is made of pre-Star Wars '70s Hollywood as a kind of celluloid golden age, and Alan Sharp was there in the thick of it, working with the very best, generating the sort of track record few British screenwriters are likely to match." David N. Meyer has incorporated an appreciation of Sharp's writing in his review of Night Moves (directed by Arthur Penn in 1975). Following a description of an important seduction scene from the film, Meyer adds: "These delicious, poisonous moments – these cookies full of arsenic – come courtesy of Alan Sharp's venomous, entrapping, perfectly circular screenplay. It's hard not to regard him – rather than Penn – as the engine of Night Moves''' enduring power. Sharp had an unbroken forty year career writing features and television." Quentin Curtis called the screenplay for Rob Roy "one of the best screenplays in the last decade". Selected creditsFirst Night – episode "Funny Noises with Their Mouths" (1963) – writer – starred Michael Caine, Ian McShane The Wednesday Play – episode "A Knight in Tarnished Armour" (1965) – writerDouble Image – episode "Home and Away" (1966) – writerITV Playhouse – episode "A Sound from the Sea" (1970) – writerPlay for Today – episode "The Long Distance Piano Player" (1970) – writerThe Last Run (1971) – writerThe Hired Hand (1971) – writerUlzana's Raid (1972) – writer, associate producerBilly Two Hats (1974) – writerNight Moves (1975) – writerDamnation Alley (1977) – writerComing Out of the Ice (1982) – writerThe Year of Living Dangerously (1982) – writer (uncredited)The Osterman Weekend (1983) – writerLittle Treasure (1985) – writer, directorThe Edge (1989) – writerLove and Lies (1990) – writerDescending Angel (1990) – writerMission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991) – writerThe Last Hit (1993) – writerBetrayed by Love (1994) – writerRob Roy (1995) –