With this film, producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to return to the simple family values portrayed in the Andy Hardy films MGM had released a decade earlier. Farley Granger thought the script was "pointless and meandering", but as a Goldwyn contract player, he faced suspension if he refused to make the film. He thought director David Miller was "a perfectly nice man", but "no help to anybody". Granger later went to Paris and then London, where he rang up a substantial bill at the Savoy Hotel. When Goldwyn implored him to return to the States to help promote the film, Granger agreed to give The Times an interview and then fly to New York City to appear at the premiere there if the studio settled his hotel bill, and Goldwyn reluctantly agreed.Granger, Farley, Include Me Out. New York: St. Martin's Press 2007. , pp. 91, 102
