[regarding the film
Thunder Bay (1953)] I did the film because I was under contract to Universal and they told me to do it. Jim [
James Stewart] did the film because he was developing an interest in oil exploration and was -- or became -- a partner with a Texas oilman. So he wanted to deliver a message that oil exploration and production did not affect the environment. [
Anthony Mann] did the film just because Jim wanted him to do it, but Mann always complained that there just was no story worth telling in the script we had. And I had to agree with him, but I was stuck with it as much as he was.