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
Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) include it to forestall complaints that the relationship between the two was immoral. The narration is attributed to Louis Jordan with the note that he was uncredited. The debt Allied Artists incurred while making "Friendly Persuasion" prompted the studio to sell the distribution rights of "Love in the Afternoon" for Europe to gain more financing. The film was a commercial failure in the United States, but it was a major success in Europe, where it was released under the title "Ariane". In his 1957 review, Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" called the film a "grandly sophisticated romance ...