Alexander Korda - Unmade Projects

Unmade Projects

Korda announced a number of projects which were never made, including:

  • the life of T.E. Lawrence with Leslie Howard
  • the life of Nijinsky (1930s)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac with Charles Laughton (1930s-1940s)
  • Precious Bane with Robert Donat
  • Burmese Silver with Conrad Veidt (1930s)
  • the story of Pocahontas starring Merle Oberon (1939)
  • adaptation of Manon Lescaut for Merle Oberon
  • an adaptation of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy to star Merle Oberon(1940s)
  • Velvet Coat, the life of Robert Louis Stevenson with Oberon and Robert Donat
  • an adaptation of Greenmantle by John Buchan
  • Lottie Dundass starring Vivien Leigh from the play by Enid Bagnold
  • an adaptation of The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Habitation Enforced from the story by Rudyard Kipling
  • an adaptation of The King's General by Daphne du Maurier (late 1940s)
  • The Promotion of the Admiral from the novel by C.S. Forester starring Ralph Richardson directed by Powell and Pressburger (1940s)
  • A Tale of Two Cities with Gregory Peck
  • Tess of the D'Urbevilles with Jennifer Jones as Tess
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  • Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley

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