Lem Dobbs tells how any screenplay could have been picked up and done completely different by another director. He mentions he had tried to get the film made a few years prior. He had given an earlier draft of the screenplay what Dobbs calls "the original, naive, adolescent version" to Robert Aldrich's secretary to pass on to the aging director. "I still think to this day if one thing had led to another and he had read it and liked it and called me and somehow the movie had gotten made it would have added years to his life. It would have resurrected his critical reputation," says the screenwriter. Aldrich never got back to him and, instead, made what Dobbs considers "horrible movies". He thinks Aldrich would have taken a more straightforward, B-movie approach to the film.

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