Deleted musical number

Odd too about using Over the Rainbow piece a few times. Maybe same studio had property rights, was in public domain, or just used it right out treating it as common property like Happy Birthday. Might be before ASCAP and copyright outfits would have had a hand in it.

SPOILER ALERT if haven't seen this one. Not giving anything away but some people like to go in raw. This is just discussion purposes not critique

Also noticed the quick line from guy on phone to paper "Forget about the Japanese spy with the Kodak" when he was tipping have seen the two together at the nightclub.
This was before Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. IMDb has Oct. 1941 release so like work done somewhat earlier. Just shows how much the idea of Japanese observations of the homeland was out in the popular culture. Stands to reason since Japan was already on the march and pushing up against American interests in the Pacific. Hollywood was pretty close to that potential.
NYC release came after Pearl so it's possible the line was stuck in as an attempt to indicate that the US was hip to a possible Japanese attack. Perhaps it was a way to lessen the homeland fears and embarrassment of having been caught unprepared? Would have to see the very original script/release pre Pearl to see if line was in it, or added for Jan. 1942 NYC release. Maybe the novel has that line?
Another sign of how torn up things were in the 1940s is that this film didn't get release in Finland until 17 May 1946 after the war ended. 1 Aug 1948 re-release shows its staying power. Really has the dark shadowing, slanted angles, stark lighting, tight close-ups, twisty plot, psychological underpinnings that was to be common currently in film noir - and here it is as a template many years before. "I'm a sick man!" "A worm like me." His altar idol setup.

"Probably waiting for the Revolution" is another line in the Adults Only theater. Place was full of sleeping men a la Great Depression.
Notice how quickly they manage to grab Vicky in the NY Public Library. No mention of technique, surveillance or tip-off so poetic license I guess.

Squeeky gumshoe sounds from Cornell's shoes was cool.

About 20 years ago, the AMC network (when it was still showing films of yesteryear) showed 2 specials (narrated by Joan Collins!) featuring scenes cut from 20th Century-Fox movies (mostly from Alice Faye & Betty Grable musicals, and they were often quite extensive). The first cut of this thriller was titled "Hot Spot" and Ms. Grable portrayed a sheet-music-plugger working in a department store, thereby allowing her to sing one song ("Daddy"). However, audiences were expecting a frothy Grable musical and the first sneak preview was a such a disaster that Zanuck & his other cronies at Fox stayed up all night, restructuring the movie (ordering deletions as well as retakes) to ensure that moviegoers would be exactly aware of the kind of movie they were in for. Ms. Grable's occupation was even changed, and her single song was deleted. And when the newly refurbished version (with the title "Hot Spot" changed to the title of the novel from which it was adapted) was finally released, it was a smash hit. And since Ms. Grable proved she was more than up to the demands of appearing in a straight drama, I'm not surprised that some years later, Zanuck chose her to play the role of Sophie in "Razor's Edge". Grable, convinced that her acting abilities were limited, refused the role, which went to Anne Baxter who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for it. While Baxter is fine in the film, personally I wish Ms. Grable had done it. Such casting-against-type has often snared Academy Awards, and I think Grable would have surprised everybody, including herself, and walked off with the Oscar. If only . . . !