The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw hours of Westerns per week, and Walsh felt that a spoof of the genre would be a good choice for the studio, especially with the new CinemaScope process to properly display the desolate background of a lawless town in the American West. Fox decided to make the film and decided to give Walsh majority of the control over the movie's production. The studio still wanted Clifton Webb to play Jonathan Tibbs, the lead character, but Walsh preferred British actor Kenneth More. Moore had become popular in films such as "Genevieve" (1953) and "The Admirable Crichton" (1957), and Walsh felt he
The Admirable Crichton (1968 film) from trimming the first act and where Travers "was simply miscast". Bill Travers was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Performance by an Actor. The Admirable Crichton (1968 film) The Admirable Crichton is a 1968 TV movie adaptation of the play "The Admirable Crichton". It starred Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. It was filmed for "Hallmark Hall of Fame" and was directed by George Schaefer. The show was taped in New York over a month in February and March 1968. McKenna said the play was "a comment on our society, how our social code of behaviour imprisons people and stops