Ivor Montagu

Leftist theoretician and critic (Montagu accompanied Eisenstein on his 1930 trip to Hollywood) who also worked as an exhibitor, editor and director of short films. Montagu collaborated on a number of Hitchcock films during the 1930s and made propaganda films for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (he documented the experience in his 1939 film, "Peace and Plenty"). Following WWII Montagu worked for Ealing Studios, where he collaborated on the script of the acclaimed feature, "Scott of the Antarctic" (1948).