 MPAA chief Joseph Breen (I) (qv) made the studio tone down the  excessive violence in the script. The scene in which Ravic kills  Haake also included him stuffing him in the trunk, stripping him  naked, burying him and burning his clothes, all eventually cut from  the film. Breen also objected to the murder going unpunished, but  later rationalized it as an act of war, since it was committed on  the eve of the outbreak of WWII.