Now, directed by Jon Amiel, who worked with Potter on The Singing Detective, this haunting, hallucinatory drama has finally found an audience. The White Hotel was taken up by numerous directors, from Bertolucci to David Lynch, with actors including Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep slated to star - but the project defeated them all. Lauded for his groundbreaking TV dramas, Dennis Potter also wrote several acclaimed screenplays, including Gorky Park. And what is going to happen cannot be endured.' Is her trauma really the result of childhood memories, or a dark vision of the future?
But then Lisa reveals her unsettling premonitions - 'I see what is going to happen. Reading her sexually-charged journal, Probst concludes that the answer lies in her past. The White Hotel, one of seven 'unmade movies' available on audio, centres around circus performer Lisa, who visits famous Berlin psychoanalyst Dr Probst to discover the cause of her mysterious breast and pelvic pains. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Thomas's award-winning novel, plus bonus documentary Dennis Potter's unproduced screenplay of D.
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