 The other story is that Welles had recently worked with producer Albert Zugsmith, known as the "King of the Bs", on a film called "Man in the Shadow" and was interested in directing something for him.Zugsmith offered him a pile of scripts, of which Welles asked for the worst to prove he could make a great film out of a bad script.At the time, the script was called "Badge of Evil", after a Whit Masterson novel on which it was based.