According to several sources, the last two days of filming, following Mark Robson's death, were actually directed by the film's cameraman Jack Cardiff, who had directed several previous films (winning an Oscar nomination for "Sons And Lovers"). Monte Hellman may have re-filmed some scenes at a later date, but his chief function on the film seems to have been as an editor and a supervisor of post-production. The filming had generally been chaotic, and complicated still further by the sudden death of leading man Robert Shaw before he had post-synchronized any of his dialogue. Hellman's handling of the extensive footage would seem to have been drastic; certain well-known actors appear only very briefly (one of them, Vladek Sheybal, is billed under another name), the action is often elliptical and the plot is mostly confusing, whilst dialogue is often sparse.

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