Hall, he takes the ferry to Bedloe's Island and hides inside the Statue of Liberty, where he is later discovered and confronted by both Barry and Patricia. Barry pursues Fry onto Lady Liberty's torch, holding him at gunpoint. While backing away from Barry, however, Fry falls over the platform's railing and clings to the statue's hand. Barry tries to save him, but as the police and FBI arrive, Fry falls to his death. Cast Robert Cummings as Barry Kane Priscilla Lane as Patricia "Pat" Martin Otto Kruger as Charles Tobin Alan Baxter as Freeman Clem Bevans as Neilson Norman Lloyd as Frank Fry Alma Kruger as Mrs. Sutton Vaughan Glaser as Uncle Phillip Martin (as Vaughan Glazer) Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Mason Ian Wolfe as Robert Frances Carson as Society Woman Murray Alper as Truck Driver Kathryn Adams as Mrs. Brown (Tobin's daughter) Pedro de Cordoba as Bones - Circus Troupe Billy Curtis as Major / Midget - Circus Troupe Marie LeDeaux as Titania the Fat Woman - Circus Troupe (as Matie Ke Deaux) Anita Sharp-Bolster as Esmeralda - Circus Troupe (as Anita Bloster) Jean Romer as Siamese Twins (as Jeanne Romer) Laura Mason as Siamese Twins (as Lynn Romer) Production Development Hitchcock was under contract to David O. Selznick, so he first pitched the idea for the film to him; Selznick gave the okay for a script to be written, assigning John Houseman to keep an eye on its progress and direction. Val Lewton, Selznick's story editor, eventually rejected the script, which reviewer Leonard Maltin later called "extremely offbeat," so Selznick forced Hitchcock to offer it to other studios, "causing ill feelings between the producer and his director since it not only showed a lack of belief in Hitchcock's abilities, but also because the terms of Hitchcock's contract would net Selznick a three-hundred percent profit on the sale." Universal signed on, but Hitchcock could not have the two actors he wanted for the leading roles. Gary Cooper was uninterested in the project and Barbara Stanwyck had other commitments. He settled on Robert Cummings who had a new contract with Universal, while Priscilla Lane was borrowed from Warner Bros. although her scenes had to wait while she finished Arsenic and Old Lace, a production that was eventually shelved until its 1944 release. In November 1941, Universal announced that Hitchcock would make the film for the studio, and it would be