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Korda: Britain's Movie Mogul

Korda: Britain's Movie Mogul

Drazin, Charles

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsDirectorsFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1848856954
ISBN13: 9781848856950
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 15 2011
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. The biography traces Korda's path from his rural childhood in a remote part of Hungary to a British knighthood. Korda's legacy, it argues, was a film industry that dared to dream on the largest possible scale. But he also exemplified the pattern of boom and bust that dogged the British cinema ever since he first came into the limelight in 1933 with the international success of The Private Life of Henry VIII. To understand his often turbulent career is to gain a profound insight into the nature of the British cinema both then and now.

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