libbed on the spot without any idea where they would  be placed. Furie refused to speak to any representatives from the  production company (EMI) expressing concern about what was  happening. Eventually, EMI threatened to close down the production  if Furie did not sent them a completed screenplay within a week.  Upon receiving the screenplay, EMI not only judged it to be bad  (among other things, it eliminated the key "Kol Nidre" sequence),  but that it would double the budget as well as the time originally  scheduled for shooting. Subsequently, Furie was fired, having  already shot 48 hours of often unusable footage, and Richard  Fleischer was contacted to salvage the project.