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Filming began on the island of Kauai in March 1962, with the unit moving to
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was originally slated for Heston's role but died before production began. " I suppose every studio in town had projects waiting for Gable," Heston wrote in his memoirs. "Had he lived to do the film, he would have been a widower and the kid sister his daughter, but the adjusted script worked just as
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Charlton Heston was sent the script and wrote about it in his diary on 12 December 1961 calling it a good part in an overwritten and melodramatic script. If it’s treated with good care it might work out alright." Heston met with Guy Green, who he liked, and both men wanted
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on what I've written about it here, I notice I had a lot to say about my family coming to visit and the quality of the horse. No, that’s not a crack about the people who made the film, but maybe I was focusing on the wrong agenda when we shot
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party, Mai Chen's brother attacks
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the melodramatic qualities of the script. He didn’t push me as hard as I should be pushed, but he gave me a lot, all the same." (Heston would later recommend Green take over from
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