According to New York’s Film Forum, Queen Kelly should have been a dream collaboration. When Gloria Swanson, the glamorous movie star/producer and her financier lover Joseph P. Kennedy hired the most celebrated director of the time, Erich von Stroheim, to make a groundbreaking independent film, all signs pointed toward success. Instead, Queen Kelly was canceled mid-production. Shot chronologically, Swanson shut it down after filming just a few of the scandalous African sequences, leaving the unfinished film to become Hollywood legend. Now, Milestone Films’ Dennis Doros has re-created the picture’s denouement in a new reconstruction based on von Stroheim's original script.