Oskar Schindler them; there was no choice." In 1951, Poldek Pfefferberg approached director Fritz Lang and asked him to consider making a film about Schindler. Also on Pfefferberg's initiative, in 1964 Schindler received a $20,000 advance from MGM for a proposed film treatment titled "To the Last Hour". Neither film was ever made, and Schindler quickly spent the money he received from MGM. He was also approached in the 1960s by MCA of Germany and Walt Disney Productions in Vienna, but again nothing came of these projects. In 1980, Australian author Thomas Keneally by chance visited Pfefferberg's luggage store in Beverly Hills
Thomas Hill (author) Thomas Hill (author) Thomas Hill (born ca. 1528) was an English astrologer, author and translator who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain. He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening — "The profitable arte of gardening" — which was first published in 1563 under the title "A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden". He went on to write other popular works, such as "The Gardener's Labyrinth" (1577). This was originally published under the name of Didymus Mountain, now generally attributed to Thomas Hill. In 1988, the