Colin Frederick George Wills[1] (17 January 1906 – 1965) was an Australian journalist, poet, broadcaster, war correspondent, scriptwriter and travel writer.
During World War II, Wills reported from front-line areas for outlets including the BBC, Chronicle and Mirror.
His assignments included the North African campaign and D-Day, which Wills covered from a landing craft,[4] as it carried Canadian soldiers to Juno Beach, in Normandy.
The de facto co-directors of the film were Alfred Hitchcock (who was credited as a "treatment advisor") and Sergei Nolbandov ("production supervisor").
[5][6][7] Wills later authored three non-fiction books: White Traveller in Black Africa (1951), Who Killed Kenya?