Korda

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsNew Preface1 The Puszta2 Sandor of the River3 Westward Bound4 The Gilded Cage5 ‘Somewhere on the Mediterranean’6 ‘The London Venture’7 Success8 Alexander the Great9 The Foxy Whiskered Gentleman10 The Player11 The Bubble Bursts12 Twenty-Four Hours a Day13 Falling with Style14 Hanging On15 Free!16 The Service17 For King and Country18 A Knight in Hollywood19 Perfect Strangers20 Forward into the Future21 Never Pay Cash22 Auld Lang Syne23 Elsewhere24 A Home At LastNotesSelect BibliographyThe Films of Alexander KordaIndex

'In this thorough and jaunty biography, Drazin gives us a masterly portrait.' - Sunday Times; 'An engrossing exegesis of film-making in inter- war Britain and a rounded portrait of what we'd now call an economic migrant who lived profligately, left others poorer and occasionally and enduringly enriched the screen.' - Evening Standard; 'Wry, ruthless and expertly researched.' - Financial Times; '[Drazin] tells his story well. He has enough weapons in his armoury to destroy a few myths. The result is an intriguing narrative.' - Observer; 'Film history rarely has such a deft touch. As with so much, Korda got lucky.' - Times Literary Supplement; 'Thorough and readable.' - Mail on Sunday; 'An engrossing memoir with a scoop story about the film producer's espionage activities' - Books of the Year, Independent