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) Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel "Ariane, jeune fille russe" (trans., "Ariane, Young Russian Girl"), which had been filmed as "Scampolo" in 1928 and "Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse" (trans., "Scampolo, a Child of the Street") in 1932, the latter with a script co-written by Wilder. Wilder was inspired by a 1931 German adaptation of the novel "Ariane" directed by Paul Czinner.