wounded  drowsiness, director John Ford (I) (qv) took his own steps to make  Strode appear authentically weary for Rutledges gunshot early on in  the film. The day before the scene was to be shot, Ford got Strode  drunk early in the day and had an assistant follow him around for  the rest of the day to make sure he stayed that way. When the time  came for Strode to shoot the scene with Constance Towers (qv), his  hangover gave him the perfect (for Ford) appearance of a man who had  been shot.