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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781753403321

Autore

Drazin Charles

Titolo

Korda : Britain's Movie Mogul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2011

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

0-7556-9851-7

1-283-29219-X

9786613292193

0-85771-993-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302

791.430232

791.430232092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - Great Britain

Biography: arts & entertainment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 -- The Puszta; 2 -- Sandor of the River; 3 -- Westward Bound; 4 -- The Gilded Cage; 5. 'Somewhere on the Mediterranean'; 6. 'The London Venture'; 7 -- Success; 8 -- Alexander the Great; 9 -- The Foxy Whiskered Gentleman; 10 -- The Player; 11 -- The Bubble Bursts; 12 -- Twenty-Four Hours a Day; 13 -- Falling with Style; 14 -- Hanging On; 15 -- Free!; 16 -- The Service; 17 -- For King and Country; 18 -- A Knight in Hollywood; 19 -- Perfect Strangers; 20 -- Forward into the Future; 21 -- Never Pay Cash; 22 -- Auld Lang Syne; 23 -- Elsewhere; 24 -- A Home at Last; Notes.

Select BibliographyThe Films of Sir Alexander Korda; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 in.