13-10-2008, 06:39 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:This is great Paul. Thanks for posting it. The whole story is made for a fantastic block buster move but I am surprised (not) that Hollywood has never touched it.
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I have it in the back of my transom, Magda, that there was a US TV movie made and shown in the early 1970s based, more or less, on this fascinating episode. I raise the possibility for utterly selfish reasons - I want a copy, if such exists!
More seriously, I look at FDR's backers - Astor et al - and wonder how such a plot, albeit one with the enthusiastic endorsement of an equally splendid array of pro-fascist multi-millionaires, could have succeeded.
Paul