@book{290, keywords = {Pittsburgh Police, Mellon Bank, labor strikes, trade unions, nurses, Polish Americans, veterans, Korean War, surgeons, U. S. Bureau of Mines, ghost surgery, United Mine Workers, Black Americans, private investigators, Protestants, coal industry}, author = {Horace McCoy and Irving Wallace}, title = {Bad for Each Other}, abstract = {The film adaptation of Horace McCoy’s Scalpel (1952), in which 43-year-old army surgeon and Korean War veteran Tom Owen (Charlton Heston) returns home to Coalville, a hard-bitten, fictitious, Monongahela Valley town, after his brother’s accidental mining death.}, year = {1953}, pages = {131 p.}, note = {The script is held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.}, language = {English}, }