Hi JT!
That's cool. I figured there would be updated info on this
issue. Warren's book was published in 1982, which means he
wrote it a year or two earlier, plenty of time for
corrections and changes to appear.
Thanks for the update.
... Reed
> > Warren also recounts a minor controversy over a
week's worth of
> > script polishing claimed by Sam Peckinpah.
Siegel denies the claim.
> > Warren believes that Peckinpah actually did
provide the re-writes,
> > but that Siegel's subsequent memories of his
friendship with Mainwaring
> > have overridden that occurrence.
>
> This is not correct-according to a couple of
biographies on Peckinpah it was
> something like a drug-induced attempt at claiming
credits, and later the
> inability to acknowledge the screw-up. He did
eventually say during a late
> interview (early 80s, IIRC), that he did not have
anything to do with the
> rewrite, prompted, I think, by Mainwaring demanding
him to do so. BLOODY
> SAM provides a lot of details, but I don't have it
handy and am going just
> by what I remember. The Garner Simmons book,
PORTRAIT IN MONTAGE also says
> something to this effect.
>
> Mainwaring did a rather nice western novel, under
the much-used pseudonym
> Philip Yordan (who was a real person, but mostly a
front for blacklisted
> screenwriters), MAN OF THE WEST (which, though
Yordan is credited for
> writing many Anthony Mann westerns, has nothing to
do with the Mann western
> of that title-it's all rather confusing). I have a
couple of his novels
> written as Homes, and remember them minor, likable
if not hard-boiled. THEN
> THERE WERE THREE, I think, and CASE OF THE MEXICAN
KNIFE.
>
> - --JT.
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