TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Mellon Bank
KW - labor strikes
KW - trade unions
KW - nurses
KW - Polish Americans
KW - veterans
KW - Korean War
KW - surgeons
KW - U. S. Bureau of Mines
KW - ghost surgery
KW - United Mine Workers
KW - Black Americans
KW - private investigators
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Horace McCoy
AU - Irving Wallace
AB - The film adaptation of Horace McCoy’s <em>Scalpel</em> (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.
C1 - 1950s
C2 - unpublished
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Schenley Hotel
C4 - Literary; Romance; Labor
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - The script is held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
N2 - The film adaptation of Horace McCoy’s <em>Scalpel</em> (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.
PY - 1953
RN - Horace McCoy (1897-1955), born in Tennessee, was screenwriter and novelist. He died in Beverly Hills. Irving Wallace (1916-90) a screenwriter and popular novelist. 
EP - 131 p.
TI - Bad for Each Other
ER -