Producer Sam Spiegel wanted director Sir David Lean to consider the cost-saving benefits of shooting in Southern California or the less volatile political climate of Israel. Lean, however, was determined to film the story where it had happened--in a Middle Eastern country. One obvious problem for Spiegel was his religion: given the political situation in the Middle East, a good chance existed that a Jewish producer wouldn't even be allowed into Jordan. The production's British Advisor--Anthony Nutting, who had been England's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs at the start of the Suez crisis (1956)--got around that problem by getting Spiegel a visa that listed his religion as Anglican. When the forthrightly Jewish producer protested, Nutting said, "Sam, just shut up! Here's your bloody visa."
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