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Informationen zum Autor Charles Drazin's previous books include The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s and In Search of The Third Man. He lectures on the cinema at Queen Mary! University of London. Klappentext The producer behind such celebrated films as "The Four Feathers" and "The Third Man" is one of the most colorful 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of illustrations New 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 Bibliography The Films of Alexander Korda Index ...
