 This is the first John Ford (I) (qv) film in which  Spencer Tracy (qv) appeared: their second collaboration took place  three decades later, when Tracy starred in Fords  _Last Hurrah, The (1958)_ (qv). It is strange to realize that these  two great Irish American icons only collaborated two times (Tracy  narrated _How the West Was Won (1962)_ (qv), one of the sequences of  which was shot by Ford, but that doesnt count as a true  collaboration), but for most of their careers, they were bound to  different studios, Ford to 20th Century