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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...

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Cover Illustrations Front Ivor Montagu at the time of his wedding 1927 - photo 1

Cover Illustrations Front Ivor Montagu at the time of his wedding 1927 - photo 2

Cover Illustrations Front Ivor Montagu at the time of his wedding 1927 - photo 3

Cover Illustrations

Front: Ivor Montagu at the time of his wedding, 1927, photograph by Sasha. (Getty Images/Hulton Archive)

Back:Left: With George Bernard Shaw in Melodie der Welt, 1929 (frame): Montagu seated on a handy pile of bricks, concealing the fact that my old grey flannel trousers had a big hole in the seat through which my shirt projected. (Private collection)

Centre: Montagus Daily Worker press pass, 1939: when the Soviet Union invaded Finland the paper asked him to go to Russia as a war correspondent, but he was refused an exit permit. (By permission of the Labour History Archive, Manchester)

Right: Montagu in a lighter moment: he had a warm and certainly idiosyncratic charisma. (By permission of the Peoples History Museum)

First published 2018

The History Press

The Mill, Brimscombe Port

Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL 5 2 QG

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

Russell Campbell, 2018

The right of Russell Campbell to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the Publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 0 7509 8844 5

Typesetting and origination by The History Press

Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd

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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Codename Intelligentsia required a great deal of research. I am first of all deeply indebted to the archivists who eased my way and made much of the work a joy. I would like to thank especially Darren Treadwell at the Labour History Archive, Jonny Davies of BFI Special Collections, and Kathleen Dickson and Steve Tollervey at the BFI National Archive. I would also like to acknowledge the help of Anja Gbel at the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek. Susan Halpert at Harvard Universitys Houghton Library was of great assistance, as were the interloan staff at the Victoria University of Wellington Library.

With respect to film history, Charles Barr has been a constant source of suggestions and information. Others who have generously contributed their knowledge are Jo Botting, Bert Hogenkamp, Richard Taylor, David Bordwell, Terence Dobson, John Sedgwick, Hiroshi Komatsu and Paul Hammond.

In the fields of political and intelligence history I am most grateful for the advice and collaboration of David Burke, Emily Lygo, Timothy Shenk, Bill Logan and Barry Pateman.

For help with translation I would like to warmly thank Galya Brockie, Steve Marder, Jeremy Macey, Gerd Pohlmann and Bert Hogenkamp.

For his knowledge of the cinema, assistance with illustrations, and expert advice regarding publication I am particularly grateful to Patrick McGilligan, author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light.

I am highly appreciative of the commitment of Mark Beynon at The History Press, who enthusiastically took on a project at which many other publishers had baulked.

Finally, for their hospitality and ongoing support and encouragement, I am very grateful to Win Campbell (who put me up in London), Bob Tristram (who dutifully read the manuscript chapter by chapter as it emerged), Andrea Bosshard, Gerd Pohlmann, Svenda Strm, Rachel Juniot, and my daughter Camille Wrightson.

Russell Campbell
Wellington, September 2017

GLOSSARY

AP

Associate Producer

BBFC

British Board of Film Censors

BSP

British Socialist Party

BUF

British Union of Fascists

CC

Central Committee (CPGB)

CI

Communist International

CNT

Confederacin Nacional del Trabajo, Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions

Comintern

Communist International

CP or CPGB

Communist Party of Great Britain

CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

CPUSA

Communist Party of the United States of America

ECCI

Executive Committee of the Communist International

FBO

Film Booking Offices

FSU

Friends of the Soviet Union

FWFS

Federation of Workers Film Societies

G-B

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

GPU

Gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravlenie (State Political Directorate), Russian/Soviet security intelligence service and secret police, 192223

GRU

Glavnoye razvedyvatelnoye upravleniye (Main Intelligence Directorate), Soviet military intelligence agency

IAH

Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, International Workers Aid or Workers International Relief

ILD

International Labour Defence

ILP

Independent Labour Party

KPD

Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Communist Party of Germany)

LBC

Left Book Club

LCC

London County Council

LP

Labour Party

LWFS

London Workers Film Society

MI5

Military Intelligence, Section 5, common name for the UK Security Service

MI6

Military Intelligence, Section 6, common name for the UK Secret Intelligence Service

NCLC

National Council of Labour Colleges

NMM

National Minority Movement

OGPU

Obyedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravleniye (All-Union State Political Directorate), Soviet security intelligence service and secret police, 192334

OMS

Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies

NKVD

Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del (Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs), Soviet law enforcement agency incorporating security intelligence service and secret police, 193443

NUSW

National Union of Scientific Workers

PCF

Parti communiste franais (French Communist Party)

PFI

Progressive Film Institute

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