Man in the Shadow (1957 American film) Sadler's badge to him. The movie was originally called "Pay the Devil". It was Jeff Chandler's last film under his exclusive deal with Universal. The part of Virgil Renchler was originally going to be played by Robert Middleton but agents from the William Morris Agency suggested Orson Welles, who badly needed the money to pay back taxes. It was his first Western. During the course of making the film, Welles rewrote sections of the script. He also formed a relationship with Albert Zugsmith who produced Welles' next movie as director, "Touch of Evil" (1958). Filming started October 1956. Director Jack
Mardi Gras (1958 film) on Edmund Goulding, whose career was in decline and was therefore cheap, because Wald had admired his films when he was younger. Pat Boone's casting was announced in February 1958. Shirley Jones, who had co-starred with Boone in "April Love", was meant to play the female lead but had to drop out due to pregnancy. Instead the studio cast French actress Christine Carere, who has just made "A Certain Smile" for Fox. The film was Sheree North's final film with 20th Century Fox, who had signed North in 1954 in order to mold her as a replacement for Marilyn Monroe.