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
Island in the Sun (film) role in three years: She was billed third, but appeared in only a supporting role. Premiering in June 1957, "Island in the Sun" was a major box office success. The film earned $5,550,000 worldwide, and finished as the sixth highest-grossing film of 1957. It was the 8th most popular movie in Britain of that year. As a result of playing many interracial love scenes with Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine received poison pen mail, including some purported threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Fontaine turned the letters over to the FBI. The title song "Island in the Sun" was written by