#GANGLAND MOVIE STARRING SCOTT GLENN DRIVER#
Nichols takes his time to bring the audience into the lives of the coaches driver and passengers.
Dudley Nichol's screenplay and just the right cast gives this story grit under the direction of John Ford. This motion picture grows on you and no matter it's true source. One has to wonder what part of what we see on screen came from him? It is a known fact that Ben Hecht worked on it without credit. What also must be mentioned is though Nichols received sole screen credit for the screenplay. He would also be nominated for an Oscar for 1940's "Long Voyage Home" and 1943's "Air Force". Cooper's 1936 "SHE", the 1936 Katharine Hepburn and Fredrick March "Mary of Scotland" directed by John Ford and 1939's "Gunga Din". Nichols had won the Oscar for John Ford's 1935 "The Informer", Among Nichols' other screenplays would be Merian C. John Ford's choice of Dudley Nichols to write the screenplay was excellent. John Ford, or the "Oregon Cultural Hertiage Commission" on the background for the screenplay. The article further states Nichols concentrated on the history of the period instead. In the Commission's article the writer states that according to Dudley Nichols, He never read either Guy de Maupassant, or Bret Harte to avoid being influenced by other writers than Haycox. DeMille, 1941's "Abilene Town" starring Randolph Scott and 1954's "The Far Country" starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann among seven others. Haycox had other stories that would become the basis for 1939's "Union Pacific" directed by Cecil B. The article mentions that along with writing the story "Stage to Lordsburg". It should be noted there is a 2001 article from the "Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission" about the State's native son Ernest Haycox. The film's credits gives the sole source as Ernest Haycox's "The Stage to Lordsburg". To be fair screenwriter Dudley Nichols may have read the Bret Harte story as could have Ford, but according to John Ford there were only two influences on the screenplay.
#GANGLAND MOVIE STARRING SCOTT GLENN PROFESSIONAL#
A professional poker player named "John Oakhurst" and "Uncle Billy" the town drunk and a suspected robber. Their reasoning is based upon Hate's having a character called "The Duchess" who is a saloon girl/prostitute. Some of the reviewers for Ford's motion picture believe there was some influence from Bret Harte's 1892 story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". The group reflect people of all aspects of French society and their stations in life start to interact. Set during the Franco-Prussian War de Maupassant's story has ten people share a carriage escaping the pursuing Prussian army. The story fits in very well with Ernest Haycox's "Stage to Lordsburg". Which can be translated in four ways as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", or "Ball of Lard" and refers to a prostitute. To begin with it is said that John Ford remembered an 1880 short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant "Boule de Suif". MEN-AND WOMEN-ON THE LAST FRONTIER OF WICKEDNESS Posters that seemed to have turned what Nichols wrote into another motion picture than the one I saw, but probably caught the potential audience's attentions with tag lines such as: So how did this short story become Dudley Nichols' screenplay for a motion picture that was promoted by two very interesting posters. Yet, it is very easy to substitute one for the other. You won't find a saloon girl named "Dallas", but there is "Henriette" and the coach driver isn't named "Buck". You will not find a "Ringo Kid" getting on the stagecoach in the middle of its run, but you will find a blonde young man out for revenge in Lordsburg named "Malpais Bill". Also there are only a few names given and they are different from the picture. Although some of the events and characters are slightly different. The basis of the screenplay for "Stagecoach" can be seen in Haycox's story. This article is a fan's look at all three versions of "Stagecoach" and for that I start not with the 1939 motion picture, but with a 1937 short story "Stage to Lordsburg" aka: "The Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox.
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