Cassavetes essentially shot the film twice, once in 1957 and again in 1959, removing, adding, and rearranging scenes. The second version is the version Cassavetes favored; he withdrew the first version from distribution and it was for decades thought destroyed. In 2004, after over a decade of searching, Cassavetes scholar Ray Carney, a professor at Boston University, announced that he had discovered the last remaining print of the original version of the film, which had somehow ended up in a box in a subway before being bought with a lot of other "lost and found" objects. ^[1]