[about the problems on
Captive Women (1952)] Part of the fault was that the director,
Stuart Gilmore, was being given one of his first directing opportunities . . . Gilmore had been an editor for [
Howard Hughes] on
The Outlaw (1943); this was one of Gilmore's first pictures and he was lost. Completely. The poor man had tremendous problems: there were too many people in the cast, too many actors with no dialogue in the scenes, and then the fact that they [the producers] had overextended themselves for special effects.