Casey62 wrote:
It seems to me the script was problematic from the start with several treatments submitted, each handling certain things in drastically different ways, yet only Garrett Fort got screen credit. The tinkering continued throughout the production, which tells me they were never satisfied even with the so-called final shooting script.


To a great extent, that's what happens with any movie.  You adjust, you compromise, you flip coins.  A single credit on a film is standard. Split credit happens occasionally, but prior to the foundation of the WGA in the late 30s, assignment of credit was arbitrary, at the whim of the studio. Rarely after 1950 will you see more than 4 or 5 writers given credit, and then usually only one or two as screenwriter, perhaps another one or two for "story," even if you had 15 or 20 people contribute to the script over a period of years.  


    


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