10 greatest movies never made

An American Tragedy by Sergei Eisenstein

 Joseph Stalin and the Soviet government labelled Sergei Eisenstein a “formalist” – then a damning charge – in the late 1920s, so the director began a tour of western Europe and the United States that ultimately brought him to Hollywood. Paramount Pictures head Jesse L Lasky admired his films and in April 1930 offered Eisenstein $100,000 to a make a movie, suggesting he direct an adaptation of Theodor Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy. Six months later, Eisenstein had produced a script, but Lasky found it so depressing that he terminated the contract and paid for Eisenstein’s passage back to Moscow. more here