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3 days ago · Alexander Korda’s The Scarlet Pimpernel at 90 Guest contributor András Forgács reflects on the Hungarian roots of an iconic British film.
4 days ago · Ave Caesar! is a 1919 Hungarian drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Oscar Beregi Sr., María Corda and Gábor Rajnay. A debauched Habsburg Prince sends out one of his aide-de-camps to bring him back a gypsy girl. The film was considered as an attack on the aristocracy.
2 days ago · The other two co-producers, Sir Alexander Korda and Carol Reed, were Hungarian and British, respectively. In June 2008, the American Film Institute (AFI) revealed its 10 Top 10—the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
4 days ago · Producer Alexander Korda had conceived a ballet-themed film in 1934, which he intended to be a biopic about Vaslav Nijinsky. The project never came to fruition, but in 1937, Korda found himself again inspired to write a ballet-themed film as a vehicle for Merle Oberon, his future wife.
Jul 1, 2024 · 17 He had a small but memorable part as a god called Indifference in British film The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Alexander Korda, 1937). Sanders recalled, ‘The part called for me to ride half naked and shiny with grease, at four o’clock in the morning during one of England’s coldest winters, on a horse which was also coated with grease
2 days ago · The director-producer and screenwriter duo had been collaborating since 1939, brought together by Alexander Korda (a Hungarian producer-director who found success in Hollywood with lavish historical reconstructions before moving to London) to create a World War I espionage film, The Spy in Black. The screenplay was transformed by the Hungarian ...
Jul 6, 2024 · His Brit contemporaries accused him of lacking patriotism for remaining in Hollywood when war broke out rather than return home and sign up; but he worked secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assigned by British ambassador Lord Lothian and acclaimed film producer Sir Alexander Korda, assigned to MI5, the Security Service.
