The Foxes of Harrow is a 1947 American adventure film directed by John M. Stahl. The film stars Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, and Richard Haydn.
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Directed by | John M. Stahl |
Screenplay by | Wanda Tuchock Dwight Taylor (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) Edwin Justus Mayer (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) Thomas Job (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) |
Based on | The Foxes of Harrow 1946 novel by Frank Yerby |
Produced by | William A. Bacher Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | Rex Harrison Maureen O'Hara Richard Haydn Victor McLaglen Vanessa Brown Patricia Medina Gene Lockhart |
Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | 24 September 1947 |
Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States/United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,750,000[1] |
Box office | $3,150,000 (US rentals) [3] |
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design (Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox).[4]
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) buys his way into society – something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.[5]
The storyline is derived from the 1946 eponymous novel The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby. Fox paid author Frank Yerby $150,000 for the motion picture rights to The Foxes of Harrow, which was his first novel. A December 1947 Ebony article called the figure "the biggest bonanza ever pocketed by a colored writer" and stated that the book was "the first Negro-authored novel ever bought by a Hollywood studio."[1]
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