Totem Poles were peculiar to West Coast tribes and would not have been part of the native cultures of Eastern or Central Canada.Because the film was an ambitious, personal pet project and not one of Ford""s typical westerns, he was unable to find financial backing from the major Hollywood studios, so he turned to Republic Pictures, a smaller studio regarded asthestudio for B-pictures and low-budget westerns.In the next nighttime scene, Clark""s team was covertly flown to their landing zone in Colombia, as Ritter wrote a communique to Cutter: "They""re in.The vengeful, fire-spewing dragon Smaug (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch) was seen descending over the town and blasting it with his fiery breath.