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Bupp Filmology
Week Nine
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"Conflict" 1936
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MOVIE NAME: CONFLICT
STUDIO: UNIVERSAL PROD.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: PAUL MALVERN
DIRECTOR: DAVID HOWARD
DATE: 1936
TYPE: BOXING DRAMA
CAST:
JOHN WAYNE as Pat Glendon, JEAN ROGERS as Maude Sangster , TOM BUPP as Tommy ,FRANK SHERIDAN as Sam Stubener, WARD BOND as Gus Carrigan, EDDIE BORDEN as Spider Welsh, HARRY WOODS as Kelly, BRYANT WASHBURN as City Editor, LLOYD INGRAHAM as Adams
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
STORY: Based on the novel , The Abysmal Brute by Jack London. Pat Glendon works as a stooge for Gus Carrigan. His job is to gain the confidence of small rural communities, and then, pretending to be a stranger, to knock out Carrigan in order to drive up bets before a fight. Once in the ring, he looses and they split the profits. Sam Stubener runs the racket. Spider and Pat are sent into the next target town, a lumber camp to do good deeds to win over the suspicious lumberjacks. Because she is so attractive, Pat begins to read the books that social worker Maude Sangster offers. She is really a reporter trying to round up Stubeners gang. After Pat saves a drowning boy named Tommy, a runaway from the orphanage, the boy follows him home, where Pat takes him in. Posters of Carrigan’s arrival go up and Tommy suggests that Pat fights him when he comes to town. At a picnic, Pat and Kelly, the favorite of a rival lumber camp get into a fight over Maude and Pat wins. Pat’s boss asks him to represent the camp at the Carrigan fight. Under Tommy’s management, Pat goes into training. After Carrigan arrives and Stubener starts collecting money, Pat starts to feel guilty and tells Stubener he will not go through with the fight. Stubener insists, so Pat tells him he will only fight on the level. A drunk recognizes Pat from an earier fight and tells everyone not to bet on him. Spider tries to warn Pat that Stubener’s men are putting plaster of paris on Carrigan’s gloves, but is shot before he can. Maude hears Spirder’s warning and tells the referee, who discovers the hardened plaster. After it is removed, Pat beats Carrigan with a knockout. Pat and Maude plan to marry and adopt Tommy.
Note:
This movie had a working title of "The Showdown". A 1936, newspaper reported that during the filming of the river scene, John Wayne and Tommy were pulled under, but "The Duke" barely pulled the two of them out actually saving Tommy’s life.
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