Pre-production
| “ | We want to make good movies, and make them cheap. The two are not incompatible. | ” |
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—Stanley Kubrick |
Harris, a "prosperous young television distributor" and Kubrick's "Maecenas," set up Harris-Kubrick Films with the writer/director; the two convinced United Artists to put up $200,000 for the film, with Harris adding $120,000. The film was the first of three on which Harris and Kubrick collaborated as producer and director in a span of less than ten years; Harris got the rights to the novel after Frank Sinatra, who had approached the author before Harris, hesitated during negotiations. Working titles for the film were Clean Break and Bed of Fear.
The art director, Ruth Sobotka, was Kubrick's wife at the time.
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