Word: korda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zoltan Korda affectionately filmed the picture almost entirely in the real locales: Ixopo, Carisbrooke and Johannesburg. There are expansive shots of rolling green hills, played-out mining areas and savage slums. But the camera, with its realistic eye, can also confine and shackle. Though Cry, the Beloved, Country has much of the novel's passion, it has lost some of the poetry. The lens brings into harsh focus the artifices which trick out the theme yet cast little light on the problems of the dark continent...
Before leaving on a reporting trip to Indo-China, Writer Graham Greene accepted the invitation of Sir Alexander Korda for a cruise on the Korda yacht Elsewhere around the Greek islands, through the Dardanelles to Istanbul. Among the other glittering guests: Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn...
...scrawling naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught...
Last week, sponsored by Sir Alexander Korda, who finances and distributes their product and gives them a cut in the profits, Launder & Gilliat were making the most of their independence. While Launder worked on a film called Beauty Queen (about "the kind of a girl who starts in the News of the World and ends up there, too"), Gilliat was mulling over a movie biography of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Third Man (Sir Alexander Korda; David O. Selznick) is already a smash hit in Britain, where most critics hailed it as the best movie of 1949. U.S. moviegoers are likely to find it one of the best of 1950. Like The Fallen Idol, by the same brilliant British team-Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene-it adds an extra depth of character insight and a new texture of pictorial eloquence to the kind of spellbinding thriller that made Alfred Hitchcock famous...