Sam Spiegel was quite fond of Marlon Brando, who had won his first Best Actor Oscar in the Spiegel-produced Best Picture winner Fronte del porto (1954), according to his biographer Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. When casting Brando in this film, Spiegel was worried that Marlon, a motorcycle enthusiast, would wind up killing himself, like James Dean, in an accident. (Brando had badly lacerated his knee while biking before filming began.) Spiegel constantly queried Arthur Penn as to whether Brando had brought his motorcycle with him to filming. When Brando got wind of this, he had his motorcycle brought over to the set to play a joke on Spiegel, who quickly arrived at the shooting to see that Brando didn't ride it. When Spiegel found out it was all a joke, the normally taciturn producer laughed heartily.

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