 McLaglen said when he showed the finished cut to United Artists they "loved" the film.But the producer had a big projection room in his house, and he showed the movie for a solid week to a hundred people, and I think a hundred people had ideas of what we should do with the movie... And without me having any input – I didn’t have the last say – they cut the movie and, in the end, it was not nearly as good as it could have been.I had a great ending, and a lot of good stuff in there, and he didn’t know what he was doing.