Hungarian-born Alexander Korda, called the most scholarly of film producers, was certainly one of the most successful; London Film Productions, the company he organized in the early Thirties with his brother, designer Vincent Korda, and the writer Lajos Biro, is credited with putting the British film industry on the map. Korda's directorial forte was the historical film, approached with a Lubitsch-like eye for unchaste adventure, and featuring Britain's greatest actors.
