10 Movies That Were Filmed But Never Finished
6. Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales
1968 saw the Richard Pryor team up with director Penelope Spheeris for the seditious satire Uncle Toms Fairy Tales: The Movie For Homosexuals. The film followed a group of Black Panthers who kidnap a wealthy white man and try him for all the racial crimes in American history.
After the movie was shot, Spheeris had put together a rough cut for Pryor's personal viewing. However, subsequent to an argument with his then-wife Shelley Bonis, who thought her husband was spending too much time and money on the project, the comedian demolished the negative in a fit of fury.
Spheeris later managed to reconstruct the forty-some minutes of film by arduously splicing together the mangled pieces. However, the result was so rutted that the film danced around as it ran through the projector gate.