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Book SynopsisThis is an examination into the career of film director, Max Ophuls, drawing on archival documents and interviews with more than 60 of Ophuls's contemporaries. It traces the European director's struggle to find a niche in the US film industry, and shows how he bent conventional Hollywood methods.
Trade ReviewAmong the approximately 30 European film directors who sought sanctuary from Hitler by emigrating to Hollywood between 1933 and 1941, Ophuls is unique in significant ways, as Bachers excellent introduction makes clear. The very last of the lot to arrive in Hollywood in the fall of 1941, he had already made one new life in France; but as an active anti-Nazi, German-born and Jewish, he had compelling reason to flee the Vichy regime. * Choice *
Table of ContentsWar and waiting
The right man at the right time: The Exile and Universal's quest for quality
A film worth fighting for: Letters from an Unknown Woman
Standing tall on a sinking ship: making Caught at Enterprise
Making an American movie: The Reckless Moment
Returning to Europe with a runaway production
