All this weird dubbed dialogue is explained in this book, by Ben Urwand. Basically the German Foreign Office asked them to change all evidence of German spying from the movie and they did! The author is on AHTV now discussing his book and showing scenes from this movie and others.
shareFunny thing is, they still refereed to "Germans" several times, and it isn't like the American public, in 1935, had forgotten who we were at war with in the "Great War." It had to be Germany who was trying to sink our ships in 1917!
It is one thing to (as they did) keep Hollywood from making movies that made Nazi Germany look bad, but quite another to object to references to Germany being the "bad guy" in a WWI movie.
Strange
Hays Code = The history, institutions, prominent people and citizenry of all nations shall be represented fairly.
We were not at war with Germany in 1935.
I wish someone here could read lips. Then we could perhaps find out what was actually said in the original dialog.
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