A Chekhov story that could be a movie, set in America

Anton Chekhov's In the Ravine is no doubt his story that could most aptly be developed into a screenplay and adapted to another time or place: a brief summary, in a remote, impoverished village where some rundown factories pollute the land and the water, one rich guy controls the entire economy through his control over the trade in vodka and various other wares and contraband; he has two sons: one is a police inspector and lives away from home and seldom comes back to see his family; the other is a deaf-mute, apparently not very intelligent, married to a beautiful woman with a strong and tempestuous personality who takes over management of all the business affairs of the family - the father-in-law adores her. Inspector son comes home for a visit, they decide it's time to get him married; they find a very beautiful young woman living in extreme poverty - and she's his bride. Strangely, the son is very tearful at the wedding, and is never happy with wife once married - an implication that perhaps he is gay? - eventually, family is rocked by scandal, as the inspector son it turns out has been distributing counterfeit rubles - he's arrested, sentenced to Siberia; father devastated, and decides to leave his land land the inspector son's infant - rewrites his will - daughter-in-law goes crazy, on a rampage, scalds the baby with boiling water, the baby dies. The young mother horribly tearful, and in a haunting long final sequence she comes home from the hospital, a long night journey, to bury her infant. At the final moment, she offers to make peace with the woman who killed her child. So many strong characters here, and so much incident - as a story, it feels a bit sketched - and I suspect Chekhov may have known he had novel material here but in 1900, toward the end of his life, he knew he didn't have the strength to develop this material to its full value and just wanted to get it down, to record it. I can imagine this as a film on the American frontier with American western characters - either in the 19th century, or perhaps today, maybe even in an Alaskan mining town or fishing village. Wish someone would try to make a movie of Ravine - i think it could really work.