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Bell Tower | Assassination
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Top Ten Films | 1940
Best Picture | 1941
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1941
Best Writing Original Screenplay | 1941 | Joan
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1941
Best Art Direction BlackandWhite | 1941
Best Effects Special Effects | 1941
Shooting was completed on May 29, 1940, after which director Alfred Hitchcock made a visit to England. He returned on July 3 with the word that the Germans were expected to start bombing at any time. Ben Hecht was hurriedly called in and wrote the tacked-on final scene set at a London radio station. It was filmed on July 5, and the real-life bombing started on July 10, 1940.
Albert Bassermann (who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer) couldn't speak a word of English and learned all his lines phonetically.
When the plane crash sequence was shot, a special tub within the studio tank had to be built for Herbert Marshall, who couldn't swim because he only had one leg (he'd lost a leg in combat in World War I).
In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Alfred Hitchcock revealed that the plane crash scene was filmed by using footage shot from a stunt plane diving on the ocean, rear projected on rice paper in front of a cockpit set. Also, behind the rice paper were two chutes aimed at the cockpit's windshield connected to large tanks of water. With the press of a button at the right moment, water came crashing through the rice paper, into the plane simulating the plane crashing into the sea from the cockpit view.
Producer Walter Wanger and director Alfred Hitchcock clashed repeatedly during shooting. Wanger kept wanting to have the script rewritten with every news story reporting changes in the European situation. Hitchcock, who hated making a movie without the script in absolutely final form before shooting began, pointed out that even if the movie were up-to-date at the time of shooting, it would be out-of-date by the time he finished post-production and it was ready for release.
"John Jones: I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you. Carol Fisher: I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you. John Jones: Hmm... that cuts down our love scene quite a bit, doesn't it?"
"Carol Fisher: This is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you. Foreign correspondent. Mr. Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott. Scott ffolliott: With a double 'F'. John Jones: How do you do? Scott ffolliott: How do you do? John Jones: I don't get the double 'F'. Scott ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small 'F's John Jones: They can't be at the beginning. Scott ffolliott: One of my ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII. His wife dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is. John Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter? Scott ffolliott: No, just a straight 'fuh'."
