"If it was going to be cast all-English, it should be an English picture, made in England and we might as well forget about it." "I'd done a lot of Shakespeare in America," he said. Houseman did not want to use an all-British cast. Mankiewicz to direct because he thought he and William Wyler were "probably the two best dialogue directors in the business" and that Mankiewicz was "younger and more flexible."
MGM's head of production Dore Schary offered the project to Houseman, who said he wanted Joseph L. Producer John Houseman says the film was made because Laurence Olivier's 1944 production of Henry V had been a success.
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