![]() He always insisted subsequently that he should never have attempted the film, which was a box-office failure. ![]() Quinn used his considerable influence to help Mackendrick and the ensuing film was highly praised it was, however, cut by the studio by about 25 minutes, which Mackendrick claimed had ruined it. ![]() When Alexander Mackendrick was approached to direct, he was appalled by the travestying of Hughes's novel, and was able to persuade leading man Anthony Quinn that a more faithful and disturbing version of the book was a better idea. However, the studio saw it as a light-hearted Disney-style pirate adventure aimed at a family audience several years after Mason's plans had come to nothing, they revived the project along these lines with Nunnally Johnson assigned as writer and producer. The novels ironic lesson is that no such thing exists. ![]() Richard Hughes's original novel, published in 1929, is a dark and disturbing story, and James Mason, who greatly admired it, wanted to make a film of it in the 1950s, producing it for Twentieth Century-Fox as well as playing one of the leads. Richard Hughess whipping-post is the chimera of objective truth. On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising. This film had a long and troubled history. ![]()
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