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Codename Intelligentsia - The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy (Hardcover)
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Codename Intelligentsia - The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy (Hardcover)
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He was the son of a hereditary peer, one of the wealthiest men in
Britain. His childhood was privileged; at Cambridge, he flourished.
At the age of 21, he founded The Film Society, and became a
pioneering standard-bearer for film as art. He was a collaborator
of Alfred Hitchcock, rescuing The Lodger and later producing his
ground-breaking British thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39
Steps, Secret Agent and Sabotage. He directed comedies from stories
by H.G. Wells, worked in Hollywood with Eisenstein, and made
documentaries in Spain during the Civil War. He lobbied for Trotsky
to be granted asylum in the UK, and became a leading propagandist
for the anti-fascist and Communist cause. Under the nose of MI5,
who kept him under constant surveillance, he became a secret agent
of the Comintern and a Soviet spy. He was a man of high
intelligence and moral concern, yet he was blind to the atrocities
of the Stalin regime. This is the remarkable story of Ivor Montagu,
and of the burgeoning cinematic culture and left-wing politics of
Britain between the wars. It is a story of restless energy,
generosity of spirit, creative achievement and intellectual
corruption.
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