Trivia

Former Foreign Service public diplomacy officer, Donald M. Bishop, writes, in his review of the movie, in the American Foreign Services Journal in 2014, in 'It Deserved An Oscar": "During the war, Lundigan enlisted and took his place behind, rather than in front of, the camera. He was a Marine Corps combat cameraman in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa."

Interesting that our hero is sent in as a spy, yet the first thing he does is tell two locals he speaks fluent Chinese while overhearing them in the garden reception. James Bond he's not.

In 2014, the American Foreign Services Association invited its members to a free showing of this film, stating, "This slightly-campy classic - starring William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, and Jonathan Hale - is one of the very few films that actually makes an attempt to portray life in the Foreign Service without irony."

A full review of the film, titled, 'It Deserved An Oscar," was written by Donald M. Bishop, also in 2014. Bishop - "a retired Foreign Service public diplomacy officer, was a public affairs officer in Bangladesh, Nigeria and China, and twice served as a foreign policy adviser at the Pentagon. His last assignment was in Kabul."