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Plot

Production

Budd Boetticher was working as an assistant director at

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, notably to

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on ''The More the Merrier''. Harry Cohn took a liking to Boetticher and got him to direct the last two days of filming. Boetticher said it was a 12-day picture and recalled "my God, I studied! I prepared every angle, I went over the script line by line, I prepared for those two days as if I were directing ''Gone With the Wind'', because I didn't have any talent for it." Boetticher called Landers "a no-talent guy. They called him the "D" director there at Columbia; he just wasn't any good. Whenever they had a picture they didn't really care about, they'd give it to Landers." He later performed a similar task on '' U-Boat Prisoner'' (1944).

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1942 films American war drama films Columbia Pictures films American World War II films World War II films made in wartime Films directed by Lew Landers 1940s war drama films 1942 drama films American black-and-white films Films with screenplays by Aubrey Wisberg 1940s English-language films {{WWII-drama-film-stub