Vidor, often compared to the end of the century""s director Steven Spielberg, brought his own epic, sweeping style o his intimate yet massive work about love and war.After the financial and critical success ofRio Grande (1950)for the studio, the third of Ford""s ""cavalry rilogy,"" he convinced Republic Pictures to support him for his next riskier film - an Irish "Taming of the Shrew" tale that was remarkably similar in plot.Sgt.John Taggart (John Ashton) for not revealing himself as a police officer when he was arrested.Foley""s story was not believed and he was called "a foul-mouthed jerk from out of town." Lieut.Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) told Foley that they "go strictly by the book" - and wondered why he went to Maitland""s office, while he was on vacation, with a concealed weapon." He accidentally topples his daughter Joyce""s (Linda Bennett) newly-constructed play castle of wooden blocks (her fantasy of a police station) and upsets her.