This biography of film director Sir Alexander Korda goes some way to explain how three wartime refugee brothers from Hungary could become the personification of post-war British film-making. What it does best is to look at the brothers' family dynamics - it was less successful in invoking the political background to British film making of the time. Even so it's an engaging read, even if the claims of 'a cast of thousands' was typically oversold...
(Clive Yelf - bwl 19 June 2003 ) |
