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stagecoach remake

posted 20 years ago by pjwoodall1
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Years ago I saw Garson Kanin and the American Film Institute with Adam's Rib and My Favorite Wife. Stagecoach(66)had played on tv the night before, and I
mentioned John Ford's reaction "There's only one Stagecoach." This got quite a reaction out of Kanin, and he vented:
"His Girl Friday": when you change a character's sex, you change the whole concept."
"Little Women(48): Vomitous.
Thomas Mitchell's Doc Boone is such a wonderful character that I wrote him into my first screenplay "No More Room in Hell" which is a black comedy version of "The Wages of Fear".

[–] tommyboy221 18 years ago

like the 1939 revesion?

[–] pjwoodall1 18 years ago

Always have. Interesting to find David Sharpe's name among the credits because STAGECOACH is not included among his credits. I have only seen him work once before with John Wayne. In 7 SINNERS he is one of the stuntmen in a saloon brawl.
I used to have an LP of 2 radio shows, one starring Wayne, Claire Trevor and Ward Bond, the other with Randolph Scott and Trevor. I don't remember who played Boone.
When I wrote my first screenplay a few years ago, I brought back Dr. Josiah Boone and found him a fun character to write for. The plot? THE WAGES OF FEAR with women driving the trucks instead of men. But that's another story.
There was also a tv remake with Johnny Cash among others which I skipped, but there was an interesting cameo by Lash LaRue.
See you at the movies.