Top 20 short story to film adaptations Don't Look Now, Daphne du Maurier, 1971 Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, 1973 While du Maurier famously disliked Hitchcock's adaptations of The Birds and Jamaica Inn, she had little complaint when Nicolas Roeg came round to making Don't Look Now. The short story, about an English couple in Venice after the death of their young daughter, began life in a 1971 collection of short stories by du Maurier, Not After Midnight. Roeg's adaptation remained faithful to du Maurier's characters, and remains particularly famous for its love scene and extreme opening and conclusion.