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The bramble bush by Karl N. Llewellyn, 1960, Oceana Publications edition, in English. The Bramble Bush is a 1960 American drama film, based on the controversial novel of the same name, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Rush, Jack Carson and James Dunn.It was released by Warner Bros.

The Bramble Bush is a 1960 American drama film, based on the controversial novel of the same name,^[2] directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Rush, Jack Carson and James Dunn. It was released by Warner Bros.^[3]

Plot[edit]

Dr. Guy Montford moves back to his seaside Massachusetts hometown at the request of old friend Larry McFie, who is dying of cancer. Over the objections of Larry's father, hospital administrator Dr. Sol Kelsey puts the patient in Guy's personal care.

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Guy runs into Bert Mosley, an unscrupulous lawyer who is running for district attorney. He is unaware that Mosley is having an affair with Kelsey's chief nurse, Fran, until one night he is summoned to a motel fire and finds that Bert and Fran were secretly meeting there.

Larry knows his condition is terminal, despite Guy's mentions of a possible miracle drug. Larry's death-bed wish is that his wife, Margaret, will end up married to Guy, whom he trusts. Sam McFie, for some reason, does not want his son being treated by Guy.

Margaret goes sailing with Guy, but is devoted to her husband. She is also unhappy with Guy's cruel treatment of a town drunk, Stew, until she learns that the man once had an illicit romance with Guy's mother, resulting in the suicide of his father. Margaret and Guy briefly become lovers.

Fran has hopelessly fallen in love with Guy, but is being blackmailed by reporter Parker Welk, who knows of the motel affair and threatens to go public unless Fran poses for provocative photographs. Bert finds out about it and assaults Parker, who receives medical attention from Guy.

Complications develop when Larry pleads with Guy to put him out of his misery and Margaret discovers she is pregnant from the one-night stand. Guy can't bear to see his friend in pain. He gives him a fatal overdose of morphine. Fran realizes what happened and tells Bert, who has Guy placed under arrest.

Larry's father lies on the witness stand that his son feared for his life in Guy's care, believing the doctor was in love with his wife. Sol, however, testifies that he personally heard Larry beg Guy for euthanasia. A jury acquits Guy, who hopes he and Margaret can move beyond all that has happened someday.

Cast[edit]

• Richard Burton as Dr. Guy Montford
• Angie Dickinson as Fran
• Jack Carson as Bert Mosley
• Barbara Rush as Margaret
• Frank Conroy as Sol Kelsey
• Carl Benton Reid as Sam McFie
• Tom Drake as Larry McFie
• Henry Jones as Parker Welk
• James Dunn as Stew

Production[edit]

The film was based on a novel by Charles Mergendahl which was published in 1958. Reviewers compared it with other novels about the underbelly of small towns such as Peyton Place and King's Row.^[4][5]

In August 1958, film rights were bought by Milton Sperling, who had a production unit, United States Pictures at Warner Bros.^[6]

In January 1959 Richard Burton signed to play the male lead.^[7] Sperling wanted Carolyn Jones to play the female lead.^[8] Eventually the part went to Angie Dickinson, who had just impressed in Rio Bravo. In February Daniel Petrie, best known for his work on television including adaptations of Wuthering Heights, signed to direct.^[9][10]

A support role was given to James Dunn, making his first film in eight years, and his first movie at Warners since 1935.^[11]

Filming began 30 March 1959.^[12] The film was mostly shot at the studio, with a few days location work at Newport and Balboa to look like Cape Cod.^[13]

During filming, Mergendahl died after a fall at his home. He was only 40 years old.^[14]

Bantam Books published 1.5 million editions of the novel to coincide with the release of the film. It was the largest order in Bantam's history.^[15]

Reception[edit]

The film earned rentals of $3 million in the United States and Canada.^[1][16]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Rental Potentials of 1960'. Variety. January 4, 1961. p. 47. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
2. ^http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/the-bramble-bush-revisited/
3. ^BRAMBLE BUSH, TheMonthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (Jan 1, 1960): 51.
4. ^Novel a Lightning Rod Put Up to Entice the Flash of Best-Sellerdom: THE BRAMBLE BUSH,Mergendahl, Charles. Chicago Daily Tribune (31 Aug 1958: b3.
5. ^The Doctor Takes a Wife: THE BRAMBLE BUSH. By Charles Mergendahl. 382 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.95. Dempsey, David. New York Times 24 Aug 1958: BR27.
6. ^2 U. S. FILM UNITS OFF TO AUSTRALIA: Hecht, Hill, Lancaster Plan Movies There in Winter -- 'Bramble Bush' AssignedBy OSCAR GODBOUTSpecial to The New York Times. New York Times 27 Aug 1958: 33.
7. ^FILMLANDE EVENTS: Richard Burton in 'Bramble Bush'Los Angeles Times 29 Jan 1959: B8.
8. ^Carolyn Jones May Do 'Bramble Bush'Hopper, Hedda. Los Angeles Times 7 Jan 1959: 18.
9. ^FILMLAND EVENTS: Anne Aubrey Will Star With TaylorLos Angeles Times 20 Feb 1959: A9.
10. ^M-G-M PLANS FILM OF 'BUTTERFIELD 8': Studio Buys Rights to Book by O'Hara -- Newcomer in 'Bramble Bush' CastBy THOMAS M. PRYOR New York Times 11 Mar 1959: 41.
11. ^HESTON TO CO-STAR WITH GARY COOPER: Actors Get Roles in M-G-M's 'Wreck of Mary Deare' -Dunn Returning to Films New York Times 30 Mar 1959: 24.
12. ^Method Described as Self-Hypnosis: Margaret Leighton Airs View; Angie Dickinson Revives LegsScheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 11 Mar 1959: B7.
13. ^Sin Behind 'Bramble Bush' to Test Code's LaxityBy Thomas Wood. The Washington Post, Times Herald 15 Nov 1959: H9.
14. ^Charles Mergendahl Dead at 40;] Novelist Wrote 'Bramble Bush'I-'epectal. to The New York Times,. New York Times 30 Apr 1959: 31.
15. ^FILMLAND EVENTS: Nancy Walters Gets Contract at MGMLos Angeles Times 3 June 1959: A9.
16. ^DAN PETRIE, THE 'UNDERGROUND RAILWAY' FROM CANADA TO BROADWAYMoore, Jacqueline. Maclean's; Toronto, Canada Vol. 74, Iss. 11, (Jun 3, 1961): 24.

External links[edit]

• The Bramble Bush at TCMDB
• The Bramble Bush at Letterbox DVD
• Review of film at Variety
• The Bramble Bush on IMDb

Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th century.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Karl Llewellyn was born on May 22, 1893, in Seattle, but grew up in Brooklyn. He attended Yale College and Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He studied under Arthur Linton Corbin, whose influence on him was profound.

Llewellyn was studying abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. He was sympathetic to the German cause and traveled to Germany to enlist in the German army, but his refusal to renounce his American citizenship made him ineligible. He was allowed to fight with the 78th Prussian Infantry Regiment, and was injured at the First Battle of Ypres.^[2] For his actions, he was promoted to sergeant and decorated with the Iron Cross, 2nd class. After spending ten weeks in a German hospital at Nürtingen, and having his petition to enlist without swearing allegiance to Germany turned down, Llewellyn returned to the United States and to his studies at Yale in March 1915. After the United States entered the war, Llewellyn attempted to enlist in the United States Army, but was rejected because he had fought on the German side.

Llewellyn joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1925, where he remained until 1951, when he was appointed professor of the University of Chicago Law School. While at Columbia, Llewellyn became one of the major legal scholars of his day. He was a major proponent of legal realism. He also served as principal drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

Llewellyn married another professor and UCC drafter, Soia Mentschikoff. She went on to become dean of University of Miami School of Law.

Llewellyn died in Chicago of a heart attack on February 13, 1962.

Legal realism[edit]

Compared with traditional jurisprudence, known as legal formalism, Llewellyn and the legal realists proposed that the facts and outcomes of specific cases composed the law, rather than logical reasoning from legal rules. They argued that law is not a deductive science. Llewellyn epitomized the realist view when he wrote that what judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers 'do about disputes is, to my mind, the law itself' (Bramble Bush, p. 3).

As one of the founders of the U.S. legal realism movement, he believed that the law is little more than putty in the hands of a judge who is able to shape the outcome of a case based on personal biases.^[3]

Publications[edit]

• 1930: The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study (1930), written especially for first-year law students. A new edition, edited and with an introduction by Steven Sheppard, was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.
• 1941: The Cheyenne Way (with E. Adamson Hoebel) (1941), University of Oklahoma Press.
• 1960: The Common Law Tradition-Deciding Appeals (1960), Little, Brown and Company.
• 1962: Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice (1962).
• 1989: The Case Law System in America, edited and with an introduction by Paul Gewirtz, University of Chicago Press. (Revised text of lectures delivered in German at the University of Leipzig in 1928, originally published in German in 1933.)^[4]
• 2011: The Theory of Rules, edited and with and Introduction by Frederick Schauer, University of Chicago Press (A lost treaties rediscovered decades after Llewellyn's death.)

References[edit]

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1. ^Shapiro, Fred R. (2000). 'The Most-Cited Legal Scholars'. Journal of Legal Studies. 29 (1): 409–426. doi:10.1086/468080.
2. ^The Casualty List (Prussian) dated Dec. 23, 1914 lists under 78 IR, Ist Battalion, 4th Company Krgsfr (Kriegsfreiwilliger - War Volunteer) Karl Llewellyn verwundet (wounded)
3. ^'Jurisprudence'. West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman, Shirelle Phelps. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2005.
4. ^Munday, Roderick (March 14, 1990). 'The Case Law System in America. By Karl Llewellyn. Edited and with an Introduction by Paul Gewirtz. Translated by Michael Ansaldi. [Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1989. xxxvii, 123 and (Index) 3pp. Hardback £19.95 net.]'. The Cambridge Law Journal. 49 (1): 179–180. doi:10.1017/S0008197300107147 – via Cambridge Core.

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Further reading[edit]

• William Twining. Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973; Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
• George W. Liebman. The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 2005.
• Mathieu Deflem. Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Roger Cotterrell. The Politics of Jurisprudence. Second revised and enlarged edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Neil Duxbury. Patterns of American Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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