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“The War Department wanted no part of the film,” Huston wrote. “I was told by one of its spokesman that it was ‘anti-war.’ I pompously replied that if I ever made a picture that was pro-war, I hoped someone would take me out and shoot me. The guy looked at me as if he were considering just that.” Huston himself felt that perhaps he”
― Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

“My God, nobody ever wanted to kill Germans more than I did,” he said. “Or to see them killed. I thought it was ‘anti-war’ to stop Hitler.”
― Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

“And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered— We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”
― Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

“With no end to his service in sight, he signed to write two screenplays that fall—an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers for producer Mark Hellinger at Universal, and The Stranger, which Orson Welles would eventually direct at RKO.”
― Mark Harris, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War