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Double Cross | Assassination
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Feature Films | 1946 | Fritz
Best Director | 1943 | Fritz
During the Joseph McCarthy-inspired "Red Scare" era in the 1950s, this was one of the films labeled subversive by the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) because it was alleged to have contained dialog that might be construed as pro-communist. Writer John Wexley was even blacklisted. It wasn't seen again in the United States until the mid-'70s.
Originally, Bertolt Brecht was denied story credit by the Screen Writer's Guild, even though he worked closely with writer John Wexley on the project.
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich has been the subject of at least five other films: The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), Anthropoid (2016), Opus Pro Smrtihlava (1984) (a documentary), Operation Daybreak (1975) and The Assassination (1965), 1965. Heydrich also is the lead character in Conspiracy (2001), in which he is played by Kenneth Branagh.
The original titles for the project were "No Surrender" and "Never Surrender" They had to choose a new title because a book was published with a similar title during production. Producers held a contest among the cast and crew to choose a new title. A production secretary submitted the winning title and won $100.
The idea for the film was inspired by the assassination of Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech guerrillas and the subsequent reprisals taken by Nazi occupation forces.
"Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber: You better put that down. Dr. Pillar: I'm going to put it where it belongs"
"Czech Patriot: Your mothers were slimy rats! Their milk was sewer water!"
