Fort Parker massacre of his life, and most of his fortune, searching for his daughter Rachel, his grandson James, his niece Cynthia, and his nephew John Richard. After many near-death escapes, he finally settled with his family. John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards, in the John Ford Western "The Searchers", was modeled by author Alan Le May after Parker and others affected by child abductions. Former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert in his book "An Informal History of Texas" entitled one of his book's chapters "Was Uncle James (Parker) The Villain" which expressed an entirely different take on the reverend. James W.
Slightly Scarlet (1956 film) honest mayor, his secretary-mistress, her kleptomaniacal sister and the fellow who wants to get control of the gang. Critic and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was kinder to the film, placing it fifth in his list of the best films of 1956 in "Cahiers du Cinema". Slightly Scarlet (1956 film) Slightly Scarlet is a 1956 Technicolor film noir crime film based on James M. Cain's novel "Love's Lovely Counterfeit." It was directed by Allan Dwan, and its widescreen cinematography was by John Alton. The picture tells the story of Ben Grace (John Payne), a man working for a powerful metropolitan crime boss—Solly