 During the shooting of this movie, John Ford (I) (qv) had put  John Wayne (I) (qv) down every chance he got, because Wayne had  not enlisted to fight in World War II. Ford commanded a naval  photographic unit during the war rising to the rank of captain and  thought Wayne a coward for staying behind. After months of heaping  insults on Waynes head, costar Robert Montgomery (I) (qv) finally  approached the director and told him that if he was putting Wayne  down for Montgomerys benefit (Montgomery had served in the war),  that he needed to stop immediately. This brought the tough