ID

FBW000271      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1941

Original Title

Confirm or Deny

Directed by

Archie L. Mayo, Fritz Lang (Anm.)

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Executive producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; Associate producer: Len Hammond; Script: Jo Swerling; Based on: Henry Wales, Samuel Fuller; Camera: Leon Shamroy; Editing: Robert Bischoff; Sound: E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman; Art direction: Richard Day, Wiard B. Ihnen; Set decoration: Thomas Little; Costumes: Gwen Wakeling; Makeup: Guy Pearce; Music: David Buttolph

Cast

Don Ameche (Mitch); Joan Bennett (Jennifer Carson); Roddy McDowall (Albert Perkins); John Loder ( Capt. Channing); Raymond Walburn ( H. Cyrus Sturtevant); Arthur Shields (Jeff); Eric Blore (Mr. Hobbs); Helene Reynolds (Dorothy); Claud Allister (als: Claude Allister) (Williams); Roseanne Murray (M.I. Girl); Stuart Robertson (Johnny Dunne); Queenie Leonard (Daisy); Jean Prescott (Elizabeth Harding); Billy Bevan (Mr. Bindle); Alan Napier (Updyke); Lumsden Hare (Sir Titus Scott); Dennis Hoey (Duffield); Leonard Carey (Floorman); Hilda Vaughn (Receptionist); Bruce Cameron (Acrobat); Russell Saunders (Acrobat); Dave Dunbar (Workman); Dave Thursby (Foreman); Alexander Gill (Air Raid Warden); Cyril Delevanti (Bellhop); Viola Moore (Telephone Operator); Doris Stone (Telephone Operator); Heather Wilde (Telephone Operator); James McNamara (Man); David Cavendish (Headwaiter); Cyril Thornton (Refugee); Constantin Romanoff (Rubber)

Length

73'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 12 Dec 1941: Premiere

Further Remarks

- Studioaufnahmen: 20th Century-Fox, Los Angeles.

Abstract

A story involving Mitch, a foreign correspondent, who will do anything to get his story, and Jennifer Carson, the teletype operator in the Ministry of Information in London who wishes Mitch were more prudent but falls for him anyway while he dodges bombs during the London Blitz.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Kafka, Hans: "Hollywood Calling", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 7, Nr. 36, 05.09.1941
- Eisner, Lotte H.: Fritz Lang. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976
- Kaplan, E. Ann: Fritz Lang. A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: K.G. Hall, 1981
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- McGilligan, Patrick: Fritz Lang. The Nature of the Beast. New York, NY: Faber and Faber, 1997