Both directors received screen credit for their work.[William Keighley had previously directed top-billed Flynn in the Warner Bros"" costume dramaThe Prince and the Pauper (1937)a year earlier." The command is made very clear by the CIA operative speaking only once:Terminate with extreme prejudice.]The film received only two Academy Awards nominations without winning any Oscars: Best B/W Cinematography (Joseph Walker) in preliminary balloting, and Best Special Effects (Roy Davidson and Edwin C.To have to answer stupid questions when people are dying all around you? You see how it feels?" When he asked what had happened, she answered pointedly: "Well, you missed it.]Peter, like another ""father-less"" passenger, has also purchased a ticket for the crowded night bus ride to New York, traveling on the bus because he is down-and-out and broke, and that is the only fare he can afford.