In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.

Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Body Snatchers.

Jack Finney's novel ends with the extraterrestrials leaving earth after they find many humans offering too much resistance, despite having almost no reasonable chance against the invaders.

* Comstock makes a cameo ( rescued from a burning building ) in Jack Finney's novel Time and Again.

Butt appears and plays a significant role in Jack Finney's time travel novel, From Time to Time.

* 1970: A character in Jack Finney's Time and Again lives in 19 Gramercy Park South around 1882.

The El was also the backdrop for Jack Finney's novel Time and Again ( 1970 ).

The plot line, though with a different ending, borrows heavily from the classic American short story " The Devil and Daniel Webster ", and echoes a plot device in Jack Finney's 1952 short story " Behind the News.

Time travel stories to which the novel has been compared include Jack Finney's Time and Again ( 1970 ) and the film Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ).

He then provided the story to the third adaptation of Jack Finney's 1955 science fiction novel, The Body Snatchers, a tale of alien invasion and paranoia: Body Snatchers was directed by Abel Ferrara and starred Forest Whitaker.

Cohen's science fiction horror film and satirical social commentary, The Stuff ( 1985 ), has garnered mixed reviews, often being compared to Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers novel and the 1958 film, The Blob.

* Jack Finney's Body Snatchers Story ( 1993 )

* 1970 – Steven Jack, South African cricketer

When Arthur Leslie died suddenly in 1970, his character, Rovers ' landlord Jack Walker, died with him.

In 1970 he made Rio Lobo, with Wayne, Jorge Rivero and Jack Elam.

* 1970 Sports Illustrated article on Jack Kemp

By the 1970s some Native American film roles began to show more complexity, such as those in Little Big Man ( 1970 ), Billy Jack ( 1971 ), and The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), which depicted Native Americans in minor supporting roles.

No Vietnam war films followed until Jack Starrett's Nam Angels AKA The Losers ( 1970 ) filmed on Philippine sets left over from Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero ( also 1970 ).

( Richard Lester, 1965 ) and played leads in All The Way Up ( James MacTaggart, 1970 ), The Chain ( Jack Gold, 1984 ), The Dunera Boys ( Ben Lewin, 1985 ) and Foreign Body ( Ronald Neame, 1986 ).

This was followed by his role in Little Big Man ( 1970 ) where Jack Crabb, his character, ages from teenager to a 121-year-old man.

* Reese, Jack E. " The Formalization of Horror in Titus Andronicus ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 21: 1 ( Spring, 1970 ), 77 – 84

Johnson's story is the basis of the play and subsequent 1970 movie The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones as Johnson ( known as Jack Jefferson in the movie ), and Jane Alexander as his love interest.

In 1970, Benny and Jack Binion acquired the rights to this convention, renamed it the World Series of Poker, and moved it to their casino, Binion's Horseshoe, in Las Vegas.

In one early incident, gay activist Jack Baker brought suit against the state of Minnesota in 1970 after being denied a marriage license to marry another man, and in Baker v. Nelson the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples did not violate the United States Constitution.

* Jack Benny ( 1968 – 1970, 1972 )

* Jack Dormand, later Baron Dormand of Easington, Labour MP for Easington, 1970 – 87

Another Anglo-Welsh novelist ( and playwright ) was Jack Jones ( 1884 – 1970 ), a miner's son from Merthyr Tydfil who was himself a miner from the age of 12.

In 1970, Black appeared as Rayette, the waitress girlfriend of Jack Nicholson, in the film Five Easy Pieces, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

She played Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family ( 1970 – 1974 ), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

Other early television shows Linkletter worked on included Life With Linkletter with his son Jack ( 1969 – 1970 ) and Hollywood Talent Scouts ( 1965 – 1966 ).

* The Incredible ... Champion Jack Dupree ( 1970, Sonet SNTF 614 )

A biography titled Maxwell Bodenheim by Jack B. Moore was published in 1970.

* Jack Rand ( 1902 – 1970 ), English football player

While working with the Band of Gypsys from late 1969 until early 1970, Mitchell also collaborated with the Jack Bruce and Friends band along with ex-Cream bassist / vocalist Jack Bruce, keyboardist Mike Mandel and jazz-fusion guitarist and future The Eleventh House frontman Larry Coryell.

The algorithm was first published by Yefim ( Chaim ) Dinic in 1970 and independently published by Jack Edmonds and Richard Karp in 1972.

* Ambient ( novel ), a novel by Jack Womack

* In Wheelers, a novel by Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen, CMBR is explained as the encrypted transmissions of an ancient civilization.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

* Galatea Dunkel, in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road

The Innocents ( Jack Clayton, 1961 ) based on the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting ( Robert Wise, 1963 ) are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s, both made in the UK by American studios.

* Skeleton Coast, novel by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul copyright 2006

In the novel Protector, the Martians were wiped out when Jack Brennan caused an ice asteroid to crash into the surface of Mars, raising the average humidity of the atmosphere.

Early novels in this renaissance were Jack Williamson's novel Beachhead and Ben Bova's novel Mars ( both 1992 ), which envisioned large-scale expeditions to Mars according to the thinking of the 1990s.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

A nickname that would stick with Bennett for the remainder of his political career, " Iron Heel Bennett ," came from a 1932 speech he gave in Toronto that ironically, if unintentionally, alluded to Jack London's socialist novel:

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man ( ISBN 0575074639 ).

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Many of the characters in the novel, particularly Jack Ryan, went on to be the central character of many of Clancy's later novels.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan.

Early in the novel, Jack Ryan, the new President, issues a presidential pardon to John Terence Kelly for his several murders.

In the novelette Rumfuddle ( 1973 ), Jack Vance presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia.

* Witch Hunt ( novel ), a 1993 novel by Ian Rankin ( writing as Jack Harvey )

* May – Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

However, studio head Jack Warner approved of Huston's treatment of Hammett's 1930 novel, as he stood by his word to let Huston choose his first subject.