 Harry Saltzman (qv) wanted an elephant stampede in the movie so  Bond and Scaramanga could chase each other on elephant back. The  rest of the creative team balked at the idea, but Saltzman went to  see an elephant trainer. It turns out that elephants need a special  shoe on their feet to protect them from rough surfaces when they  work. A few months later, while filming in Thailand,  Albert R. Broccoli (qv) got a call saying his elephant shoes were  ready. Saltzman had ordered about 2,600 pairs of them. The sequence  was not in the movie, but the man who made the shoe had not been  paid. As of 1990, EON production still owed him.