Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Frank Fry: I don`t like autumn.
Patricia "Pat" Martin: You`re not being very nice to a lonely girl. You look as though you might be lonely too.
Frank Fry: I got to catch that boat.
Patricia "Pat" Martin: 15 minutes shouldn`t make such a big difference Mr. Fry. Barry Kane: That`s the only good part. I`m with you.
Patricia "Pat" Martin: I wish it was somewhere else - the North Pole - I wouldn`t care.
Barry Kane: We might wind up there too, chasing Fry over an old glacier.
Patricia "Pat" Martin: Fry. He seems so small now. I`d forgotten about him.
Barry Kane: Pat, this moment belongs to me. No matter what happens, they can never take it away from me.
[another dancer cuts in and dances off with Pat]
Patricia "Pat" Martin: Barry, why couldn`t I have met you a hundred years ago? On a beach somewhere?
Barry Kane: Bathing suits looked awfully funny a hundred years ago. I bet you`d look beautiful though.
Patricia "Pat" Martin: I`m afraid we`re not behaving very well.
Barry Kane: What`s the difference, we`re not invited anyway.
Mac, Truck Driver: I`ve been thinkin` for long time I`m gonna get out of this truckin` game.
Barry Kane: Why don`t you?
Mac, Truck Driver: One of my neighbors told my wife it`s stylish to eat three meals a day.
Mr. Freeman: The most important thing is to make sure of everyone around us.
Charles Tobin: Mr. Kane?
Mr. Freeman: I`m just not sure. I want to know that he`s all right.
Charles Tobin: All right? What an understatement. He`s much more than that! He`s noble and fine and pure... So he pays the penalty that the noble must pay in this world: he`s misjudged by everyone.
[to Tobin]
Barry Kane: Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You`ve done pretty well here. I don`t get it.
Charles Tobin: Power, yes... I want that as much as you want your job, or that girl. We all have different tastes as you can see, only I`m willing to back my tastes with the necessary force.
[to Patricia as they dance at a party full of Nazi sympathizers]
Barry Kane: Right now, they`re probably haggling over the price for us with Murder, Incorporated.
[Philip, a blind man, explains to Patricia why he believes Barry is innocent]
Phillip Martin: Don`t you know I can see a great deal farther than you can? I can see intangible things. For example, innocence.
Charles Tobin: You`re one of the ardent believers - a good American. Oh, there are millions like you. People who play along, without asking questions. I hate to use the word stupid, but it seems to be the only one that applies. The great masses, the moron millions. Well, there are a few of us unwilling to troop along... a few of us who are clever enough to see that there`s much more to be done than just live small complacent lives, a few of us in america who desire a more profitable type of government. When you think about it, Mr. Kane, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done.
Charles Tobin: You have all the makings of an outstanding boor.
[to Barry Kane]
Charles Tobin: Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. Need I remind you that you are the fugitive from justice, not I. I`m a promient citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure workman wanted fro committing an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?
Trivia
Hitchcock wanted Gary Cooper or Joel McCrea for the leading role. Cooper wasn`t interested in doing a thriller. McCrea wanted to work with Hitchcock again, but was unavailable. So the role finally went to Robert Cummings.
Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Gary Cooper for the male lead, with Harry Carey as the chief villain.
Alfred Hitchcock`s original director`s cameo was cut by order of the censors. He and his secretary played deaf-mute pedestrians. When Hitch`s character made an apparently indecent proposal to her in sign language, she slapped his face. A more conventional cameo in front of a drugstore was substituted.
Alfred Hitchcock chose to use the European "Finis" at the end of the film rather than the traditional "The End."
Film debut of Norman Lloyd.
Before he sold the property and the services of Alfred Hitchcock to Frank Lloyd Productions for $20,000, David O. Selznick had originally planned to film it himself with Gene Kelly, who had not as yet made a movie, in the leading role.
Rumored to contain Robert Mitchum as an extra.
Originally, Barry Kane was to be named Barry Ford, Patricia Martin was Teddie Miller and Philip Martin was Edward Miller.
Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Margaret Sullavan or Barbara Stanwyck for the leading female role. But the role went to Priscilla Lane.
Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] A man visiting the newsstand in front of the drug store where Barry Kane is taken upon arriving in New York City.
The shot of the ship on its side toward the end was an actual shot of the ocean liner SS Normandie, which had caught fire and capsized at its pier in New York. The fire was an accident, not sabotage (a cutting torch accidently set fire to some kapok life vests), though there were rumors of sabotage at the time.
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