Sei colpi in canna (1959)

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Hound-Dog Man is a 1959 American musical comedy drama film directed by Don Siegel, based on the 1947 novel by Fred Gipson, and starring Fabian, Carol Lynley, and Stuart Whitman.

Production

In 1952 Ida Lupino expressed interest in obtaining the film rights, as a possible vehicle for Robert Mitchum.

In 1955 Filmmakers Inc announced they would make the film along with an adaptation of The Quick and the Dead.

20th Century Fox bought the film rights in March 1958 following the success of the film of Old Yeller, also based on a Gipson novel. The project was assigned to prolific producer Jerry Wald who hired director Don Siegel. Siegel had been working on a film about the Boxer Rebellion for Wald but the script from writer Barre Lyndon was not ready so Wald put him on Hound Dog Man.

Siegel later wrote in his memoirs, "I had never done a picture in this genre. It was a welcome change of pace to directed a film that children could go see. I wish I could do more. My reputation may be as a director of violence.... but that doesn't mean I can't, or don't want to do comedy, or love stories. My favourite picture is Brief Encounter."

Gipson was signed to write the script. According to the author's biographer, "changes in the story of Blackie Scanlon incite Gipson to uncontrollable rages and Tommie Gipson [his wife] arbitrates all further revisions." (The author would later be given shock treatment for depression and imprisoned for assault.)

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