 The production was troubled almost from the beginning. It ran into  financial troubles, there were conflicts among the cast, and  director Nicholas Ray (qv) argued so violently with producer  Samuel Bronston (qv) that he eventually walked off the set and  quit the picture, and soon afterward suffered a severe heart attack.  Andrew Marton (I) (qv) and Guy Green (I) (qv) finished directing  the picture, uncredited.