Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990 - Softcover

Waldman, Harry

9780786477463: Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786477466 ISBN 13: 9780786477463

Publisher: McFarland, 2014

In a hundred years of filmmaking dozens of potentially great films of master directors and artists were either never completed or not released. Many of these films are lost forever, but their little-known histories illustrate what fiction writers have known all along: People's failures often make stories more compelling than their successes.

The reasons these might-have-beens never came to fruition are almost as varied as the plots themselves: Love spurned (L'Ecole des Femmes, 1941, Max Olphuls), unmanageable stars (I Loved a Soldier, 1936, Henry Hathaway), government suppression (Bezhin Meadow, 1935, Sergei Eisenstein) and fear of reprisal (Metall, 1931-33, Hans Richter) are but a few.

A detailed discussion of each attempt is accompanied by cast and production credits (when available) and excerpts from scripts and other sources. Rare stills are interspersed throughout.

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About the Author:

Harry Waldman is the author of several books about film. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Review:

"highly original.... Recommended" --Classic Images

"Well written and should interest buffs and scholars alike." --Reference Resources

"Well written and should interest buffs and scholars alike." --Reference Resources

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