Cast Aside - With Bushman at the Unmaking of 'Ben-Hur' in Italy (hardback)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The 'UNMAKING' of 'Ben-Hur'!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Hollywood film crew</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>  away on location in Mussolini's Italy-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Caught between Fascism</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>  and a rising tide of anti-fascist fury!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No shunned movie idol ever had more at stake than Francis X. Bushman in 1924. Once dubbed the handsomest man in movies he has been cast aside now for five years after a messy infidelity scandal. But his freak casting as the villain Messala in Ben-Hur could be his shot at redemption.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only three things stand in his way: A studio mogul who detests him . . . A public that has forgotten him . . . And an overseas production gone haywire.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can an amoral newsman with an equally suspect past help Bushman rebuild his reputation ... or will be a beautiful strong-willed signorina become both men's downfall? Cast Aside is an insider look at the crimes passions and publicity stunts of Hollywood's final months on location in Rome.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the notorious Moltrasio trunk murder at Lake Como to the violence inside Italy's legendary lost studio of Cines all roads lead to the single costliest episode of the silent film era-the deadly October 1924 uprising at sea in the waters off Livorno.</span></p>