> 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.
JT Lindroos / Graphic Designer / www.oivas.com
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