i never even heard of 'the valley of fear'. is it any good?
--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Stephen Burridge <stephen.burridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Stephen Burridge <stephen.burridge@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: western vs noir, cowboy vs private eye
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 11:59 AM
> As I recall there's no significant
> western content in "The Valley of Fear."
> It is based on the Molly Maguires, but not transplanted
> west.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Joy Matkowski <jmatkowski1@comcast.net>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > That's a lot of fictionalizing. The Molly Maguires
> weren't a union, let
> > alone a corrupt union, and, more important, they were
> in Pennsylvania.
> > Was the whole kit and caboodle reset somewhere in the
> Wild West?
> >
> > Joy
> > now reading Connelly: Echo Park
> >
> > Patrick King wrote:
> > >
> > > A case could be made that A STUDY IN SCARLET is
> the very first
> > western/mystery cross-genre piece.
> > >
> > > *******************************
> > >
> > > THE VALLEY OF FEAR also had its motive set in the
> American west. The
> > villains in that was a gangster-run union rather than
> Mormons. Both stories
> > are based on fact. THE STUDY IN SCARLET take for its
> premise the Mountain
> > Meadow massacre of 1857 in which a group of high-level
> Mormons instigated an
> > attack on an emigrant wagon train, attempting to make
> it look like a Paiute
> > native attack. THE VALLY OF FEAR fictionalizes the
> exploits of Pinkerton
> > mole, James McParland who famously infiltrated the
> mine workers union, The
> > Molly Maguires.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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