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

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: Peoples 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 (LEcole 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.Waldman, Harry is the author of 'Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990 - Harry Waldman - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780899506012 and ISBN 0899506011.