 The movie began under the direction of Joseph Losey (qv) (working  as Joseph Walton), exiled to England because of the Hollywood  blacklist. He shot for a few days, and his footage must be in the  movie, but when Dean Jagger (qv) arrived, he refused to work with  a director he thought of as a Communist sympathizer, and Losey was  replaced by Leslie Norman (qv). Loseys departure was publicly  attributed to "illness".