Llyod lan Sturges madue konsep materi sane mabinayan lan sasai magrengan sasue syuting; Llyod pinih kauratinin wantah akejep Sturges sampun nelasin telu kanti papat sasih antuk naskah sapertelu pertama film, "kalih tengatelu pamuput ia manulis ring aminggu utawi kirang".
Lloyd and Sturges had different conceptions of the material and fought frequently during the shoot; Lloyd was particularly concerned that while Sturges had spent three to four months on the script of the first third of the film, "the last two-thirds of it he wrote in a week or less".