Allegheny Uprising

Year of Publication
1939
Publication Type
Screenplay
Number of Pages or Episodes
136 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: P.J. [Pinkus Jacob] Wolfson
Publisher
Alexander Street Press
City
Alexandria, VA
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Abstract
A Hollywood adaptation of Neil H. Swanson’s The First Rebel (1937), a biographical novel of Colonel James Smith (John Wayne). The script thins and dramatically changes the novel’s plot, beginning in 1759 when Jim Smith returns after the French and Indian War from Quebec to Pittsburgh's Allegheny Valley.
Notes
Based on a novel by Neil H. [Harmon] Swanson (1896-1983).
Author Biography
P. J. Wolfson (1903-79) was born in New York to Russian Jewish immigrants. After failing at his first career, pharmacy, he found success writing pulp fiction about the Manhattan urban jungle of the Great Depression, after which Hollywood lured him to the West and screenwriting.
Time
1759-63
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