 The decision was made to make the story a much larger adventure tale, but the re-write process dragged on into principal shooting.Some of the incidental scenes that flesh out the story were filmed while hundreds of extras were in the background being marshaled for larger takes.The movie includes a sequence at the end in which a fictionalized Rudyard Kipling, played by Reginald Sheffield, witnesses the events and is inspired to write his poem (the scene in which the poem is first read out carefully quotes only those parts of the poem that tally with the events of the movie).