She says, “The bad guys aren`t really scary. It`s millions of nice people who do and tolerate bad things. I think that`s the heart of what I wanted to say. Hobson noticed that Darryl Zanuck, Fox`s production manager, who made the film his only personal production of 1947, told him that if the film failed to make it to the cinema, it would “push Hollywood back twenty years to honestly address the problem of prejudice.” The film was the first time famous playwright Moss Hart wrote directly for the screen. Director Elia Kazan notes in his autobiography that Jewish leaders from other major film studios held a meeting in which they urged Hart to convince Zanuck not to make the film because they did not want to stir up anti-Semitism. .