Although they would work together on 11 pictures, John Ford and Frank Nugent did not establish the same close relationship Ford had with Dudley Nichols, nor did Ford have the same level of respect for Nugent, even though Nugent married Ford's daughter. "Once the script is finished, the writer had better keep out of his way," Nugent said. "The finished picture is always Ford's, never the writer's." Nevertheless, Ford was lucky to receive both Nugent's and Merian C. Cooper's contributions to the project. According to screenwriter Philip Dunne, who worked with Ford on Com'era verde la mia valle (1941), "Ford doesn't really understand scripts. He has no story sense. He has a great sense of scenes. But Ford should never be the producer of his pictures."

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