In 1971, writer-artist Gil Kane and collaborators devised the paperback " comics novel " Blackmark.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

In 1971, American novelist Frank Yerby published The Man From Dahomey, a historical novel set partially in Dahomey.

The film was based on a screenplay written by Colin Higgins and published as a novel in 1971.

Gernsback's second ( and final ) novel, written c. 1958, was not published until 1971.

* Nemesis ( Agatha Christie novel ), a 1971 detective novel

* Mollie Hunter: The Lothian Run ( 1971 ) – a novel for young readers about Jacobite smugglers.

He also wrote a novel Puckoon, and a series of war memoirs, including Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall ( 1971 ), " Rommel?

Official film adaptations of Matheson's novel appeared in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, in 1971 as The Omega Man, and the 2007 release I Am Legend.

Her 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven has been adapted twice: first in 1980 by thirteen / WNET New York, with her own participation, and again in 2002 by the A & E Network.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct-to-video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega.

In 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the basis for the film of the same name directed by Robert Wise, and featuring Arthur Hill as Stone, James Olson as Hall, Kate Reid as Leavitt ( changed to a female character, Ruth Leavitt ), and David Wayne as Dutton ( Burton in the novel ).

* The movie Goodbye Uncle Tom ( 1971 ) ends with an unidentified man's fantasy re-enactment of Styron's novel.

" Nonetheless, as the novel was republished by the U. S. market by Puffin Books as an Armada Lion paperback in 1971, the 1960 text was once more used.

* Walkabout ( film ), a 1971 film and stage production based on the novel

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry.

The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black from Tidyman's 1971 novel of the same name.

The county is referred to in Joe David Brown's 1971 novel Addie Pray, which inspired the movie Paper Moon.

Between 1944 and 1982, he wrote at least one novel a year ( except 1950, 1951, and 1971 ), typically producing three per year-and published twelve in 1974 alone.

The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy and published as a book by Atheneum in 1971.

The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey's 1964 novel adapted for a 1971 movie, is about a family of lumberjacks in Oregon.

* Stilicho makes a brief but significant appearance in Keith Robert's novel The Boat of Fate ( 1971 )

The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty, published by Harper & Row in 1971.

The story that was the basis for the 1971 novel and 1973 movie The Exorcist has its roots in Cottage City.

The events that were the basis for the 1971 novel and 1973 movie The Exorcist have a connection to the village of Bel-Nor.

William Friedkin ( born August 29, 1935 ) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973 ; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director.

The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus ; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award.

The boy's experience serves as the basis of the documentary In The Grip Of Evil and is dramatized in the 1971 novel The Exorcist followed by the 1973 film The Exorcist.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

The film was the fifth most popular " reserve ticket " movie at the British box office in 1971.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.

* Fielder Cook ( March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003 ) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

He co-starred with Yul Brynner and Richard Crenna in the Western movie Catlow ( 1971 ).

* The sound track for the 1971 movie " Summer of ' 42 " by Michel Legrand includes a lively piece called " The Bacchanal.

Bogdanovich liked Bottoms for his sad eyes, and recalled that he was convinced to cast him when he learned that he was being highly touted at the time by his agent who said he had been given the lead in a Dalton Trumbo movie Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 ); " I guess that's what convinced me " he said.

* The 1971 made-for-TV movie Assault on the Wayne, starring Leonard Nimoy, takes place on board the submarine U. S. S Anthony Wayne.

In the 1971 Peter Bogdonovich film " The Last Picture Show ", the final movie shown in the movie theatre is " Red River ", which was changed from " The Kid From Texas " in Larry McMurty's book.

* The majority of the youthful romance movie Friends ( 1971 ) takes place in the Camargue, with numerous scenes of wetlands and wildlife.

* In The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, a 1971 TV movie that served as a pilot for the series The Waltons, Grandpa ( played by Edgar Bergen ) is seen listening to a 1947 Christmas episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, in which Teeny explains that she and her friends have been practicing their Christmas carol.

* In 1971, Christopher George played an escape artist named Cameron Steele in the TV movie / unsold series pilot, Escape.

The series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming: A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19, 1971.

Day of the Wolves is a 1971 heist movie starring Richard Egan.