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Clark Gable was ill during filming. He did not like the way he appeared in the movie, believing he looked too bloated and red in the face. He was widely felt to be too old for his character.
When the original version of the finished film was submitted to MGM executives, they didn't like it. The film went through heavy editing, and a producer had the idea of tying together the surviving pieces by adding voice-over narration from Mitchell's grown up son, as if he is telling his father's life story. Howard Keel, who had just finished making Show Boat (1951), was brought in for this purpose. The changes led to director William A. Wellman effectively disowning the film. When asked about it in an interview, he said "I've not seen it, and I never will."
Clark Gable personally chose William A. Wellman to direct because he admired Battleground (1949).
Most of the American "Indians" in this movie were portrayed by either Hispanic or Caucasian actors because there was a dearth of Native American actors at MGM at the time this movie was made in 1950.
During filming Ricardo Montalban was thrown from a horse and trampled. The resulting injury to his spine left him in constant pain for the rest of his life which increased as he aged, eventually leading to a 9-1/2 hour operation in 1993 in an unsuccessful attempt to correct the damage. The operation left him paralyzed from the waist down.
"Narrator: Trees lie where they fall, and men were buried where they died."
"Narrator: My father told me that for the first time, he saw these Indians as he had never seen them before - as people with homes and traditions and ways of their own. Suddenly they were no longer savages. They were people who laughed and loved and dreamed."
