Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow months before Conran made the movie with his actors, he shot it entirely with stand-ins in Los Angeles and then created the whole movie in animatics so that the actors had an idea of what the film would look like and where to move on the soundstage. To prepare for the film, Conran had his cast watch old movies, such as Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not" (1944) for Paltrow's performance and "The Thin Man" (1934) for the relationship between Nick and Nora that was to be echoed in the one between Joe and Polly. Avnet constantly pushed
What Made Her Do It? the film under supervision of Ota Yoneo. While contemporary criticism of the film includes film historian Donald Richie's perspective that the film is "a melodramatic potboiler," the film was a box-office success that lead to increased scrutiny and eventually government censorship of political messaging in films of the era. The film has been compared to radical German theater and Soviet-era propaganda films, though made by a commercial studio which embraced a tendency toward melodrama and vulgarity. What Made Her Do It? What Made Her Do It? () is a 1930 Japanese silent film directed by Shigeyoshi Suzuki, based on the