- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Prologue
-
1 A River Runs through It -
2 Actor to Director -
3 Transylvanian Idyll -
4 Phönix Rising -
5 A Stirred-up Anthill -
6 City of Film -
7 Monumental-Filme -
8 Exodus in Red Heels -
9 A Family Business -
10 Hungarian in the Promised Land -
11 A Loving Collaboration -
12 Hollywood’s Great Deluge -
13 General Foreman -
14 Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh -
15 Regime Change -
16 Home on the Range -
17 The Dream Team -
18 The Reason Why -
19 Falling Fruit -
20 Cash Cow -
21 Reaching Their Majority -
22 The Swash and the Buckler -
23 The “Pinochle” of His Career -
24 Fundamental Things -
25 “Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers” -
26 Victory Garden -
27 A Michael Curtiz Production -
28 Vanished Dreams -
29 Doomed Masterpiece -
30 Nerve Ending -
31 Only in Hollywood -
32 Dégringolade -
33 Out on His Shield - Acknowledgments
-
Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
Monumental-Filme
Monumental-Filme
- Chapter:
- (p.44) 7 Monumental-Filme
- Source:
- Michael Curtiz
- Author(s):
Alan K. Rode
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Count Kolowrat was inspired to produce Sodom undGomorrha after viewing D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance.Doraine was cast as the lead, but after a series of arguments, she left Kertész and the picture before production wrapped. The extras numbered 80,000, and huge, ornate sets were built for the most expensive film of the period. Filming went on for two years,as the mammoth temple sets were destroyed and had to be rebuilt.A detailed account of the film’s production is bolstered by the recollections of the actor Walter Slezak, who made his screen debut after being discovered by Kertész in a Viennese café. Although severely cut before general release, the film was profitable and boosted Kertész’s reputation. He endured a messy divorce from Doraine and would sire two more children with two different women. He went on to make The Young Medardus, a Napoleonic love story based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler. It was another acclaimed spectacle, but post–WWI hyperinflation afflicted the Austrian economy, casting doubt on Kertész’s future as a European filmmaker.
Keywords: Sodom und Gomorrha, Walter Slezak, Arthur Schnitzler, The Young Medardus, Gustav Ucicky
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Prologue
-
1 A River Runs through It -
2 Actor to Director -
3 Transylvanian Idyll -
4 Phönix Rising -
5 A Stirred-up Anthill -
6 City of Film -
7 Monumental-Filme -
8 Exodus in Red Heels -
9 A Family Business -
10 Hungarian in the Promised Land -
11 A Loving Collaboration -
12 Hollywood’s Great Deluge -
13 General Foreman -
14 Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh -
15 Regime Change -
16 Home on the Range -
17 The Dream Team -
18 The Reason Why -
19 Falling Fruit -
20 Cash Cow -
21 Reaching Their Majority -
22 The Swash and the Buckler -
23 The “Pinochle” of His Career -
24 Fundamental Things -
25 “Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers” -
26 Victory Garden -
27 A Michael Curtiz Production -
28 Vanished Dreams -
29 Doomed Masterpiece -
30 Nerve Ending -
31 Only in Hollywood -
32 Dégringolade -
33 Out on His Shield - Acknowledgments
-
Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Screen Classics
