A British producer was making a movie in Italy last week from a script by a Hungarian, about a German plot against the life of an American in a Persian city.
Teheran, the movie-in-progress, is a spy-soaked thriller, with clips from actual newsreels, built around the OGPU-reported Nazi plot to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Teheran meeting of the Big Three. British Producer John Stafford, backed by British-Italian capital and using a mixed British-Italiah-American cast, had set up shop in Rome's Scalera Studios because of a shortage of studio space and studio personnel in England.
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