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  1. Ideal Husband, An (1947 Film, Video)

    Director
    Alexander Korda
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £12.99

    An adaptation by Alexander Korda of the Oscar Wilde play. Sir Robert Chiltern, a prospective Cabinet minister, discovers that his career may be in jeopardy due to the surprising and unwelcomed appearance of...

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  2. Four Feathers, The (1939 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...

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  3. Four Feathers, The (1939 Video)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Irving Asher; Alexander Korda
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 110 min.

    Feature film. A disgraced young British officer redeems his honour by helping to put down the Khalifa’s revolt in the Sudan in 1898.

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  4. Sanders of the River (1935 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Presents a selectively constructed but positive view of British colonial administration in Africa and of the nature and capabilities of the African. The tone and theme of the film are set by...

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  5. Men Are Not Gods (1936 Film, Video)

    Director
    Walter Reisch
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...

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  6. Things to Come (1936 Film)

    Director
    William Cameron Menzies
    Producer
    Alexander Korda
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Forecasts that World War II would cause the collapse of civilisation to be replaced by a life of Arcadian simplicity. Science takes over with an invention of a ‘space gun’ which shoots...

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  7. I, Claudius (1991)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 740 minutes), £44.99

    A television adaptation of two epic books by Robert Graves ("I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God"), originally broadcast in 12 parts on BBC Television in 1976 (the first part was a double-length episode)....

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  8. Michael Powell with Chris Peachment (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Michael Powell is interviewed by Chris Peachment, film editor and critic for ‘Time Out’. The occasion is the publication of Powell’s autobiography which takes him up to 1947, ‘A Life in the...

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  9. Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Harold Young
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...

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  10. Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)

    Director
    Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones

    John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...

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