Gregory Peck and Wyler disagreed on the need for 10,000 cattle for a scene in the film The Big Country .
Peck decided to follow some other actors into the movie-production business organizing Melville Productions in 1956 , and later , Brentwood Productions.  These companies would produce five movies over the following seven years , all starring Peck ,   including Pork Chop Hill , on which Peck served as the executive producer.  These and other films Peck starred in were observed as becoming more political , sometimes containing a pacifist message , with some people calling them preachy , although Peck often said he tried to avoid any overt preachiness.    In 1958 , Peck and his good friend William Wyler , co-produced the 2¾-hour western epic , The Big Country ( 1958 ) , although it was not under Peck 's production company.  This project turned out to have numerous problems , starting with the script , as even after seven writers had worked on it , Wyler and Peck were still dissatisfied.  This necessitated Peck and the screenwriters re-writing the script after each days ' shooting , causing stress for the performers , The story for The Big Country involves Peck , a peaceful city slicker , coming west to live with his fiancée and ending up getting in the middle of a violent feud between two cattle-ranching families over access to water on a third party ’ s property , with Peck eventually being forced to physically fight back .
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