Who had more novels adapted into films, Alan Sillitoe or Walter Van Tilburg Clark?
Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
Life on the Mississippi (film) Life on the Mississippi is a made-for-television feature film, based loosely on the 1883 book of the same title by Mark Twain. It was directed by Peter H. Hunt, and starred David Knell as the young Mark Twain and Robert Lansing as his teacher, Horace Bixby. A pre-"All My Children" Marcy Walker played a character named Emmeline. It aired in 1980 as part of the PBS series, "Great Performances", and was released for home video in 1984 by MCA Entertainment.