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) agent Paul Kohner suggested Maurice Chevalier for the role of Claude Chavasse, and when asked if he was interested, the actor replied, "I would give the secret recipe for my grandmother's bouillabaisse to be in a Billy Wilder picture." Filming locations included the Château of Vitry in the Yvelines, the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera, and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. It was Wilder's insistence to shoot the film on location in Paris. Music plays an important role in the film. Much of the prelude to the Richard Wagner opera "Tristan und Isolde" is heard during a lengthy sequence