Saigon (1947)

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Saigon is a 1948 American crime film directed by Leslie Fenton, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their fourth and final film together. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was one of the last films Veronica Lake made under her contract with the studio. Ladd and Lake had made This Gun for Hire and The Glass Key, both in 1942, and The Blue Dahlia in 1946 for Paramount. While the earlier films all proved to be big box office successes, Saigon did not do as well financially. Ladd continued to be one of Paramount's top male stars, while Lake's career was in decline. By the end of 1948 her contract with Paramount had expired and the studio chose not to renew it.

Production

In May 1943, Harry Hervey sold an original story to MGM about the Japanese invasion of French Indochina called Saigon. This film was never made. In October 1945 it was announced that Paramount would make a film called Saigon about the relationship between a British officer and an American woman during the Japanese occupation of Indochina. Wells Root was to write and produce. Eventually the studio abandoned this project, in early 1946.

Later, the studio decided to use the title for a new story, set in post-World War II Indochina and starring Alan Ladd, who had previously appeared in exotic adventure tales such as China and (the then still unreleased) Calcutta. In September 1946 it was announced Ladd would star, PJ Wolfson would produce and James Henagan and John Leman were writing the script. Leslie Fenton was assigned to direct in October.

Douglas Dick was cast in November. Luther Adler joined the same month.

Filming took place in late 1946 and early 1947. For the movie, Veronica Lake reverted to her famous "peek-a-boo bob" hairstyle, which she had abandoned during the war at the request of the government because female factory workers kept getting their hair caught in machinery while imitating it.

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