Re MY comments below:
> One was entitled WAY OUT WEST, a multi-chapter
serial which, like
the
> second feature to be entitled LAW & ORDER,
starred Johnny Mack
> Brown. There was little of the Earp/Clanton feud to
be found in
this
> one. Nevertheless, Burnett's SAINT JOHNSON was
credited as the
> source material.
A correction here. The title was WILD WEST DAYS (I was
apparently, confusing it with the Laurel & Hardy
feature), released by Universal in 1937. Interestingly, it
preceded Brown's feature-length version of LAW & ORDER by
several years.
> The second, coming just a year after the first LAW
& ORDER, also
> starred Walter Huston. It was called BEAST OF THE
CITY. In this
> one, Burnett, one of the credited screenwriters,
reversed the usual
> pattern done with film versions of his work (that is
taking a
> gangster story and reworking it as a western) and
instead took his
> western and reworked it as a gangster
story.
Another correction. BEAST OF THE CITY and the Huston version
of LAW
& ORDER were apparently relased the same year (1932). In
fact, BEAST may have preceded L&O.
JIM DOHERTY
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