Directed by:
Archie MayoScreenplay:
Jo SwerlingCinematography:
Leon ShamroyComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Raymond Walburn, Arthur Shields, Eric Blore, Helene Reynolds, Billy Bevan, Lumsden Hare, Dennis Hoey (more)Plots(1)
Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his wildly speculative dispatches to the United States. Joan Bennett is the government Teletype operator assigned to make sure that Ameche doesn't send out any story that hasn't been cleared. At first adversarial towards each other, Ameche and Bennett fall in love while huddled in various bomb shelters during the 1940 London blitz. Clearly inspired by Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (40), Confirm or Deny was one of many "preparedness" films turned out by Hollywood in the months just prior to Pearl Harbor. Any political proselytizing, however, takes second place to the Don Ameche/Joan Bennett love story. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Don Ameche
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Trading Places (1983)
Midnight (1939)
Joan Bennett
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
We're No Angels (1955)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Roddy McDowall
UK
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
John Loder
UK
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Woman Alone (1936)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Raymond Walburn
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
State of the Union (1948)
Arthur Shields
Ireland
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Eric Blore
UK
Best movies:
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Top Hat (1935)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Helene Reynolds
Belgium
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Billy Bevan
Australia
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Rebecca (1940)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Lumsden Hare
Ireland
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Rebecca (1940)
Dennis Hoey
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Alan Napier
UK
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Bernadette (1943)
Madame Curie (1943)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Australia
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Colin Kenny
Ireland
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Cyril Delevanti
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Walter Byron
UK
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Queen Kelly (1929)
Claud Allister
UK
Best movies:
The Awful Truth (1937)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Queenie Leonrad
UK
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Jack Luden
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
North West Mounted Police (1940)