According to the daily production reports included in the film's file at USC, Vincent Sherman directed some scenes while Howard Hawks went to a racetrack.
'Pusher' Ross:
Five'll get you ten that guy knocks off your whole sauerkraut army!
German Major:
There are twenty five machine guns on that ridge. Tell him it's useless.
'Pusher' Ross:
What did you say?
German Major:
I said tell him it's useless!
'Pusher' Ross:
Well, you tell 'im. You talk better English than I do!
When York confronts Mr. Tompkins after the lightning episode, Tompkins, thinking York will be physical with him picks up a large wrench with his right hand and raises it to his right shoulder (perpendicular to the ground) . In the next camera angle showing both York & Tompkins, the wrench is now lowered, parallel to the ground and again raises it to his right shoulder/perpendicular to the ground.
"We are proud to present this picture, and are grateful to the heroic figures, still living, who have generously consented to be portrayed in its story.
To their faith and ours, that a day will come when man will live in peace on earth, this picture is humbly dedicated.
High in the heart of the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, lies the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf, and here in the spring of the year 1916..."
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