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    All the Brothers Were Valiant
    All the Brothers Were Valiant
    All the Brothers Were Valiant
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    All the Brothers Were Valiant

    By Ben Ames Williams

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateAug 1, 2007

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      All the Brothers Were Valiant originally appeared in Everybody's Magazine (April and May 1919) with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth (!) and was later released as a short book. It is set on a ship in the 1850s in the South Pacific and is a pulpy melodrama involving the conflict between two brothers over money, a woman and power. One brother is a rouge, the other upstanding. There is something timeless about this theme. It wraps up neatly and quickly, though not believable, it is a soothing balm from reality. It was Williams' first published work, he had been submitting stories to magazines for a long time before this one took.The story was subsequently made into three movies (1923, 1928, 1953). The 1923 silent starred Lon Chaney and is now lost, destroyed in an MGM fire in 1965. It was faithful to the book. It was remade in 1928 as Across to Singapore with considerable changes to the plot but with the same characters and names, starring Joan Crawford. It was remade again in 1953 in Technicolor starring Elizabeth Taylor's brother Robert (but not Elizabeth who declined a part). It's remarkable this was filmed three times. It's not that strong as a novel, but the 1953 film version is an improvement, smoothing over some fiddly spots. The title is derived from an epitaph on William Cavendish's gravestone: "for all the Brothers were Valiant and all the Sisters virtuous".

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