Editing Crossfire (film) (section)

==Premiere and U.S. military distribution notes==
This was a [[prestige picture]] during [[Dore Schary]]'s brief tenure as Head of Production at [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]. The film premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in [[New York City]] on July 22, 1947.<ref name="Movie Time 186">{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Gene |title=Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from Its Beginnings to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/movietimechronol00brow/page/186 |type=paperback |year=1995 |publisher=MacMillan |location=New York |isbn=0-02-860429-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/movietimechronol00brow/page/186 186] |url-access=registration }}</ref>

A few months later producer [[Adrian Scott]] and director Edward Dmytryk were cited for [[contempt of Congress]] for refusing to testify before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC), becoming part of the blacklisted [[Hollywood blacklist|Hollywood Ten]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist|last=Gordon|first=Bernard|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=1999|isbn=0292728271|location=Austin, TX|pages=ix}}</ref>

The [[US Army]] showed the film only at its US bases. The [[US Navy]] would not exhibit the film at all.<ref name="Movie Time 186"/>