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Interview with John Madden, Director of "Operation Mincemeat"

World's Greatest Con

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Was There Ever a Tension to Show Hitler Looking at the Stack of Papers?

There is a couple of moments that, er, you happen to mention thingstht, that we have discussed and our telling of the story. And one of the things i appreciate so much about this movie is that we see just the incredible lengths to which people factor in every possibility. Was there ever a temptation at any part an improduction, to depict hitler looking at a stack of papers on his desk and tryin o aside? Well, i suppose we have a saragate for that in the story, which is an imagined scene, rigt. But in the magic of film, you never have to say whether it's imagined or whether it's actually literally true. A moment of

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