Contribution To The Cinema
In the late 1960s/early 1970s Bond also made some contributions to the cinema. He wrote an adaptation of Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark (1968, dir. Tony Richardson) and the aborigine drama Walkabout (1971, dir. Nicolas Roeg); as well as contributing dialogue to Blowup (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) and Nicholas and Alexandra (1971, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner). Except for Antonioni's Blowup, his contribution to which is contested, Bond himself considered these works strictly as potboilers and often became frustrated when further involved in cinema projects.
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