later said Green Fire "was not the kind of picture I became an actress to do. I had to accept it for the chance to do The Country Girl and it taught me a lesson - never agree to a role before reading a script." Shooting In April 1954, a crew of 28, including Granger, Kelly and Paul Douglas, traveled to Colombia for three weeks of location filming. Locations included Magdalena River, Cartagena, Barranquilla, the mountains surrounding Bogota and Buenavista. The shoot was a difficult one, plagued by weather, lack of facilities and complications from the fact that there had recently been a military coup in the country and new permissions needed to be obtained. Several exteriors were filmed in the Hollywood Hills, just off of Mulholland Drive, where the production company received permission to cut steps into part of the hill. Interiors were completed by May. In common with all MGM CinemaScope films at the time (1954), it was filmed in both a CinemaScope and a non-anamorphic 4 x 3 version for screening in cinemas that hadn't yet converted to CinemaScope. Reception Granger said "I had the misfortune to be in the only really bad movie Grace ever made." Box office According to Dore Schary the film "was a dog and we never should have made it - it was just terrible but we thought it would do well and it would bring in some money. It didn't." However, according to MGM records the film earned $1,829,000 in the US and Canada and $2,631,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit to the studio of $834,000. In France, the film recorded admissions of 2,048,836. References Notes External links Review of film at Variety 1954 films 1950s adventure drama films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films set in Colombia American adventure drama films Films about mining Films scored by Miklós Rózsa Films directed by Andrew Marton CinemaScope films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films