Lemmon confessed later that playing in this film with Glenn Ford helped him a lot in the acting business, as the tenderfoot character he plays learns the cow boy life.
Tom Reese:
And all that hogwash about horses! The loyalty of the horse! The intelligence of the horse! The intelligence? You know a horse has a brain just about the size of a walnut. They're mean, they're treacherous and they're stupid. There isn't a horse ...
The stampede scene had the cowboys using what appear to be 20th century model Winchesters with round barrels. They should have used octagonal-barreled model 73s.
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