“CASUALTY”
Mature’s NoseTook Brunt of Fighting in Scrap
The chief “casually” during a fight scene in M-G-M's “Betrayed" was Victor Mature's nose.
It happened in a scene in which Mature, as a leader of the Dutch Resistance in World War II, led his followers in an attack against a squad ot Nazi soldiers. It was fighting of the most realistic order, and Mature's nose took the brunt of it.
Although X-rays revealed that the actor hadn't suffered a fracture. Director Gottfried Reinhardt revised his shooting schedule for the next two days so that he could film scenes in which Mature did not appear.
“Betrayed,” filmed in color on locations in Holland and England, co-stars Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Louis Calhcrn.