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Double Jeopardy | Love Triangle
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After Robert Mitchum got fed up with repeated re-takes in which director Otto Preminger ordered him to slap Jean Simmons across the face, he turned around and slapped Preminger, asking whether it was this way he wanted it. Preminger immediately demanded of producer Howard Hughes that Mitchum be replaced. Hughes refused.
At first Otto Preminger refused to direct this movie, because he hated the script. The normally reclusive Howard Hughes personally picked up Preminger in his car and persuaded him to make the movie. "I'm going to get even with that little bitch," Hughes told Preminger, referring to Jean Simmons, "and you're going to help me." He gave Preminger permission to rewrite the script and promised him a bonus if he could finish the picture in 18 days. By that time Simmons' contract with Hughes would have expired.
Prior to a 6/21/11 airing on TCM, Robert Osborne revealed that this was the final film of Jean Simmons under her contract with Howard Hughes --he'd bought it without her knowledge from the J. Arthur Rank Organization in England. Her displeasure led her to cut her hair off, knowing that Hughes preferred long-haired leading ladies and thinking it might prevent him from utilizing her before the contract's end date. Instead, he put her in this film, and she was given a wig to wear throughout. He also promised the director Otto Preminger a bonus if he finished shooting before Simmons' contract expired, which he collected.
Diane Tremayne's roadster is a 1949 Jaguar XK-120; the Tremayne car is a 1952 Chrysler New Yorker Convertible.
When asked to list his top ten favorite American sound films in 1964, Jean-Luc Godard listed this film as one of his picks.
"Frank Jessup: [of Diane's 'evil' stepmother] ... If she's tryin' to kill you, why did she turn on the gas in her own room first? Diane Tremayne: ...To make it look as though somebody else were guilty... Frank Jessup: Is that what you did? Diane Tremayne: Frank, are you accusing me? Frank Jessup: I'm not accusing anybody. But if I were a cop, and not a very bright cop at that, I'd say that your story was as phony as a three dollar bill. Diane Tremayne: ...How can you say that to me? Frank Jessup: Oh, you mean after all we've been to each other?... Diane, look. I don't pretend to know what goes on behind that pretty little face of yours - I don't *want* to. But I learned one thing very early. Never be the innocent bystander - that's the guy that always gets hurt. If you want to play with matches, that's your business. But not in gas-filled rooms - that's not only dangerous, it's stupid."
"Frank Jessup: [to Mary] You know something? You're a pretty nice guy - for a girl."
