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| Claude Akins Jim Beck Edgar Buchanan Harry Carter Royal Dano Jane Darwell Fabian Betty Field Virginia Gregg Dennis Holmes L.Q. Jones Carol Lynley Margo Moore Rachel Stephens Arthur O'Connell Dodie Stevens Hope Summers Stuart Whitman |
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Peyson Terminus Dooley Doc Cole Sol Fikes Fiddling Tom Waller Grandma Wilson Clint Cora Amy Waller Spud Kinney Dave Wilson Dony Susie Bell Rachael Wilson Aaron McKinney Nita Stringer Jewell Crouch Blackie Scantling |
Don Siegel Jerry Wald Fred Gipson Winston Miller Charles Clarke Cyril Mockridge Louis Loeffler Walter M. Simonds Lyle Wheeler Lionel Newman Adele Palmer Josephine Earl |
Regie Produzent Drehbuch Drehbuch Kamera Musik Schnitt Art Director Art Director Musik. Leitung Kostüme Choreographie |
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| "It's
possible for a film to be an assignment and to be involved in the script.
Hound Dog Man was both. it was based on an excellent book, which we were
not faithful to, because we were doing a kind of pseudo-musical. I tried
very hard to go back to the book. I did the usual thing that I do when I'm
on a picture, I immediately read the source material. Almost always I fall
in love with the source material. My struggle was a struggle with their concept.
They thought they had a gold mine in Fabian and they wanted it to be a Fabian
vehicle - that's were we were poles apart, much as I like Fabian. it
was nice to do a picture that children could go and see. I wish I could do
more."
(Lovell Interviews, S. 55) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Es kommt durchaus vor, daß man bei einer Auftragsarbeit Mitspracherecht am Drehbuch bekommt. Bei Hound-Dog Man war das der Fall. Der Film basierte auf einem hervorragenden Buch, dem wir nicht sehr treu waren, weil wir so was wie ein Pseudo-Musical machten. Ich kämpfte darum, zum Buch zurückzukehren. Ich tat, was ich meistens tue, wenn ich an einem Film arbeite, ich habe das Quellenmaterial gelesen. Und fast immer verliebe ich mich in das Quellenmaterial. Mein Kampf war ein Kampf gegen ihr Konzept. Sie waren der Meinung, sie hätten in Fabian eine Goldmine und sie wollten ein Fabian-Vehikel aus dem Film machen - meine Absicht war das überhaupt nicht, so sehr ich Fabian mag. Es war nett, einen Film zu machen, den sich auch Kinder ansehen können. Davon würde ich gerne mehr machen. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Fabian, though
one of the nicest kids I ever met, couldn't sing
and knew it. (...) I had never done a picture in this genre.
(...) My reputation may be as a director of violence - stemming from my
second-unit-days - but that doesn't mean I can't, or don't want
to do comedy, or love stories. My favourite picture is Brief
Encounter, a simple, small movie. (...) It's difficult to get over
in a précis the fun, the beauty, the splendid acting, the
wondrous feeling of robust freedom in Hound Dog Man."
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