This film was officially banned in Chicago by the city's police censor board, which deemed it "exceedingly controversial."
Completed before WW2, but shelved at the behest of US distributors United Artists for fear of offending the Third Reich.
In the late '30s, when the Boulting brothers submitted the script to the British Board of Film Censors (a common practice for years), it was rejected as unsuitable. The board claimed that it would have a negative effect on the Prime Minister's attempt to make peace with Hitler. However, after war broke out, the film was instantly put into production as an anti-Nazi tract.
Lina Barrie's debut.
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