MGM hired Ernest Lehman to write the movie version of a novel called The Wreck of the Mary Deare, with Sir Alfred Hitchcock assigned to direct. But Lehman got stuck on the adaptation and told Hitchcock he needed to find a new writer. Hitchcock, who liked working with Lehman, said, "I have this other idea." He'd been working on a story where a man is mistaken for a spy (who turns out not to exist), and about doing a chase sequence across Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock and Lehman developed the movie from there, but neglected to tell MGM that they'd changed courses. When the studio bosses found out, they wisely let Hitchcock and Lehman do their own thing and reassigned The Wreck of the Mary Deare.
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