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SERGEI EISENSTEIN AND UPTON SINCLAIR: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF'QUE VIVA MEXICO!" EDITED BY HARRY M. GEDULD AND RONALD GOTTESMAN Indiana University Press, 1970; hardback, $15.00; 449 pages, illustrated.
SEASTROM AND STILLER IN HOLLYWOOD BY HANS PENSEL Vantage Press, New York, 1970; hardback $3.50; 106 pages; illustrated; filmographies; bibliography.
REVIEWED BY HERMAN G. WEINBERG
Herman G. Weinberg is the author of Saint Cinema, reviewed in this issue.
Among the most touching life stories of great artists of modern times, like Oscar Wilde, Toulouse-Lautrec and Sergei Eisenstein, that of Eisenstein in our own time is as deeply moving as any, especially the tragedy recounted in Sergei Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: The Making and Unmaking of "Que Viva Mexico!" With the multilation of Stroheim's greed, the abortion of que viva Mexico! represents the most famous (infamous) cause celebré in screen annals. Framed by the authors' prologue and epilogue, the bulk of the account is taken up by the Eisenstein-Sinclair correspondence, other correspondences and documents from the archives of the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana, to which Sinclair had consigned them. Here is the whole harrowing story of...