British director Alfred Hitchcock adapted many books in his career. Had the dice landed differently, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s 1925 diatribe, might have joined the list of his crowded filmography. As explored in Hitchcock and Selznick, producer David O. Selznick jumped at the chance to obtain the US film rights days after Pearl Harbor with the Title Registration Bureau. Sensing war with Germany was imminent, he outlined a war picture written by Ben Hecht and directed by Hitchcock. What direction the independent producer intended to take the source material remains a mystery.
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