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The influences behind Flash Gordon

32 works across 28 centuries, back to The Odyssey and Genesis (Hebrew Bible).

Following one thread, 5 works from Flash Gordon to Boule de Suif. Back to all 32 works

  1. Cover of Boule de Suif

    1880

    Boule de Suif

    Guy de Maupassant

    French Naturalism. France. Written in French.

    A long story about a coachload of respectable travellers fleeing the Prussian occupation, who exploit and then shun the prostitute among them.

    What it handed down

    To Stagecoach (1939)

    Direct source, probable.

    Ernest Haycox's story 'Stage to Lordsburg', the film's credited source, reworks Maupassant's coachload of hypocritical travellers and their scorned prostitute. Ford acknowledged Boule de Suif as the model for Dallas, the outcast whom the respectable passengers snub.

    Where it came from

    The line stops here: minor branch, not followed further.

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