Between takes, Ward Bond argued with Lee Marvin that the US should attack the Soviet Union because of what Bond claimed to be the Communist threat. Marvin, an ex-Marine who served in World War II, was wounded in the fighting on Saipan against the Japanese,. He asked Bond--who had never spent a day in the military due to epilepsy, --how he spent the war. Bond had no real reply, and Marvin pointed out that the only thing Bond knew about war was what he pretended to fight on studio back lots.
Ward Bond did not get along with Jeff Chandler.