Codename Intelligentsia : The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy

Title
  1. Codename Intelligentsia : The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy / Russell Campbell.
Published by
  1. Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2018.
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Campbell, Russell.

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Description
  1. 448 pages, [16] pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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 groundbreaking 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. A man of high intelligence and moral concern, 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 and generosity of spirit; of creative achievement and intellectual corruption."--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  1. Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984
  2. 1910-1945
  3. Motion picture producers and directors > Great Britain > Biography
  4. Communists > Great Britain > Biography
  5. Spies > Great Britain > Biography
  6. Communists
  7. Manners and customs
  8. Motion picture producers and directors
  9. Politics and government
  10. Spies
  11. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1910-1936
  12. Great Britain > Social life and customs > 1918-1945
  13. Great Britain
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
  2. Biography.
Call number
  1. MWES (Montagu, I.) 18-4642
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [382]-400) and index.
Author
  1. Campbell, Russell.
Title
  1. Codename Intelligentsia : The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy / Russell Campbell.
Publisher
  1. Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2018.
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [382]-400) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1910-1945
ISBN
  1. 0750987057
  2. 9780750987059
Research call number
  1. MWES (Montagu, I.) 18-4642
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