Why Didn’t Alfred Hitchcock’s Hitler Movie Get Made?

In his career, renowned British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock often adapted books for film. Under different circumstances, Adolf Hitler’s 1925 book, Mein Kampf, might have been among them. Following Pearl Harbor, producer David O. Selznick swiftly acquired the US film rights through the Title Registration Bureau. As detailed in Hitchcock and Selznick, Selznick envisioned a war-themed picture, penned by Ben Hecht and directed by Hitchcock, soon after sensing that war with Germany was imminent. The intended direction for this independent production remains unknown.