>
> What a coincidence: I just finished the book last
night. It doesn't have
> the same border elements, although Mitch Holt (who
doesn't appear in the
> film) has a Mexican wife. Welles (but not Paul
Monash - I think Welles
> rewrote the screenplay with a very heavy hand)
changed the nationalities
> of the main characters: Holt became a Mexican Vargas
and Holt's Mexican
> Wife became a WASP Janet Leigh. Welles changed
much.
But Heston as Vargas and Leigh as the WASP wife were in place
when Welles came aboard as director. Until Heston used his
influence as star of the film, Welles was merely another
actor in it, with no say over the casting or the script.
Heston got him the directing job. So it seems that Welles's
participation in the writing of the script must have come
AFTER the nationalities were switched.
Jim Beaver
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