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Movies: Wright's Greatest Sorrow

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• How and why Wright got into the movie business

• Which movies were actually based on his stories

• Which were based on stories he had never even seen and quickly despised.

1936,  66 minutes,  Columbia Pictures, mono sound, black and white. (Also known as Dan Matthews)

Reviews: The Motion Picture Guide (MPG) and Variety critics agreed that this movie was awful.  "A mediocre adaptation," said MPG.  "Pretty creaky film fair today."  Variety used almost the same words, ". . . a slow article and creaky film material."  

Richard Arlen plays Dan Matthews, a preacher out to clean up the gambling and vice in "Old Town."  (Eric Tudor, who has seen the movie says this "Old Town" looks more like Chicago than Lebanon, Missouri, the setting of Harold Bell Wright's  novel.)  

Release:  Columbia release

Production: Sol Lesser production

Director:  Phil Rosen

Writing/Screenplay: Dan Jarrett, Don Swift, Karl Brown, (based on the novel by Harold Bell Wright.)

Availability: According to Rick Gunter, this movie is not lost. A copy does exist, but it has never been released on video or any other format.