The scene following repeated the one in the film""s prologue, where he and Julia were both bound in chairs, with Davian threatening to kill captive Julia if he was not told the location of the Rabbit""s Foot before the count of ten.Hawks reprised this thematic element inTo Have and Have Not (1944)with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart."[Note: This was a veiled reference to something mentioned in Numbers 12:1 that Moses had married a Kushite/Cushite (Ethiopian), who was specifically named by historian Josephus as Princess Tharbis.An original screenplay by Robert Buckner was based upon the private papers of Mrs.Rockne and the University of Notre Dame.As a tribute to some of Rockne""s colleagues, four of his contemporaries (including grid coaches and friends) appear briefly in one sequence: Howard Jones, Glenn ""Pop"" Warner, Alonzo Stagg, and William ""Bill"" Spaulding.