Budd Schulberg says in an interview:
"We stayed about two more days on our own [to shop the script
of ON THE WATERFRONT - JN]. And in that time we got turned
down by Warners, we got turned down--a second time now--by
Harry Cohn, it got turned down by MGM, it got turned down
everywhere. So I told Gadg that I was going to go home and
write it as a novel. I already had kind of an opening chapter
describing the harbor and stuff, and I was going to write it.
Kazan said maybe he could even do it as a play."
So, it was a script first and then a novel. And so, it's a
novelization. (What bothers me all the time is that many
people seem to think that THE THIRD MAN, the film, is a
version of the book. It's also a novelization from Greene's
own script. The film was rather recently in a list of best
movie adaptations. God!)
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 29 Jun 2007 EDT