... beats the pants off of Zane Grey and a LOT more of his work has been adapted to film. I was disappointed when I read Grey. He was described as 'colorful'. Well yeah, the orange mountains and the purple sage and all that. I like a little more color in the characters and story rather than descriptions of the colors of features. 'Hondo' was one great book as well as a great movie.
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As far as I know, the movie is an adaptation of the novel, not the other way around.
shareThe movie is an adaption of the L'Amour short story, "The Gift of Cochise". L'Amour was given first option to write a novel based upon the movie "Hondo", which became the book "Hondo". The book is pretty much a word for word adaption of the movie screenplay, which was written by James Edward Grant.
According to the Leonard Malton introduction to the DVD La'Mour first wrote the story as a short story. Then wrote it into a novel. It was the first novel La'Mour published under his own name.
The book became a best seller and was then made into the movie.
It is a terrific book. I highly recommend you read it.
I would say the book does a bit more to flesh the characters and some of the actions out. Of course, it had good bones with the short story and the screenplay (if that came first).
There's something here that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.-The Doctor
I tried to read a Zane Grey novel. I almost always stick with a book until the end, whether I really like it or not, but this Grey thing was so bad I had to quit half-way through. Like it was written by a teenage boy for teenage boys.
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