{"product_id":"scenes-unseen-unreleased-and-uncompleted-films-from-the-worlds-master-filmmakers-1912-1990-9780786477463","title":"Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harry Waldman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - Guides \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The reasons these might-have-beens never came to fruition are almost as varied as the plots themselves: Love spurned (\u003ci\u003eL'Ecole des Femmes\u003c\/i\u003e, 1941, Max Olphuls), unmanageable stars (\u003ci\u003eI Loved a Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, 1936, Henry Hathaway), government suppression (\u003ci\u003eBezhin Meadow\u003c\/i\u003e, 1935, Sergei Eisenstein) and fear of reprisal (\u003ci\u003eMetall\u003c\/i\u003e, 1931-33, Hans Richter) are but a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46500692689047,"sku":"9780786477463","price":2836.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786477463.webp?v=1769195371","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/scenes-unseen-unreleased-and-uncompleted-films-from-the-worlds-master-filmmakers-1912-1990-9780786477463","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}