The Secret Invasion (1964)

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Director Roger Corman has commented on the script changes of this movie: "Initially, the prisoner being held was an atomic scientist, the only man knowing the missing key ingredient in the equations to make an atomic bomb. So by freeing him, the five criminals help unleash atomic warfare. And UA studio United Artists said they liked the idea but not that man. So I changed him to an Italian general who would lead the resistance against the Nazis and thereby facilitate an Allied invasion of Italy. UA wanted them to be full-out heroes with less subtlety than I might have sought. I had wanted them to unwittingly and ironically do something bad on their way to being heroes. But this was the majors and with a half-million of their dollars at stake, I had a feeling these characters might lack nuance. I knew this was one of the drawbacks to working with the studios - story by committee."
Yugoslav government officials demanded that Yugoslav Resistance ("Partisan") characters wear red stars on their uniforms. Director Roger Corman tried to stop this, arguing that partisans would not identify themselves to the Nazis in this way, but the Yugoslav officials had their own way. However, Corman found a solution to this visual problem: he had them edited out in post-production.
The production did not obtain all the props and extras that had been scheduled due to an earthquake in Yugoslavia. As such, extra soldiers and army equipment were absent from the shoot as the earthquake relief superseded the production of the movie.
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