 Paramount senior management, dissatisfied with the early rushes,  considered replacing Francis Ford Coppola (qv) with  Elia Kazan (qv) with the hope that Kazan would be able to work  with the notoriously difficult Marlon Brando (qv). Brando  announced that he would quit the film if Coppola was fired and the  studio backed down. Paramount brass apparently did not know of  Brandos dismay with Kazan over his testimony before the House  Un