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The revelation of the book is . . . the extraordinary variety of Endfield s accomplishments. Many film directors also find success in TV commercials, but few are also highly respected by fellow magic practitioners as an expert in card tricks, a student of nuclear physics, and indeed a published chess expert. . . . Fascinating nuggety detail. Sight & Sound

Neve has given us a multifaceted portrait of a complex, talented, and imperfect man who believed his rediscovery came too late. The 'many lives' and careers of Cy Endfield tell an uneasy story about survival in the entertainment industry, especially during the tumult of the blacklist and years of exile in Britain. --Joanna Rapf, editor of Interviews with Sidney Lumet

Neve has given us a multifaceted portrait of a complex, talented, and imperfect man who believed his rediscovery came too late. The 'many lives' and careers of Cy Endfield tell an uneasy story about survival in the entertainment industry, especially during the tumult of the blacklist and years of exile in Britain. --Joanna Rapf, editor of Interviews with Sidney Lumet A superb biography. ArtForum This biography is fascinating, given the many individuals and movements in 1930s 1940s theater and politics Endfield brushed up against. His card trickery got him a meeting and a job with illusionist Orson Welles. Endfield taught Shelley Winters movement and planned a live magic and sketch act with young Marilyn Monroe. But he is primarily interesting as a victim of the moral dilemmas HUAC posed and the blacklist. . . . With this book, the intelligent, inventive Endfield receives the attention and respect due him. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Choice A superb biography. ArtForum A long-overdue examination of a fascinating (if sometimes frustrating) career. Leonard Maltin s Movie Crazy The revelation of the book is . . . the extraordinary variety of Endfield s accomplishments. Many film directors also find success in TV commercials, but few are also highly respected by fellow magic practitioners as an expert in card tricks, a student of nuclear physics, and indeed a published chess expert. . . . Fascinating nuggety detail. Sight & Sound The first book dedicated to a varied and underrepresented film director. . . . Any reader interested in the connections among film, politics, and Cold War history would greatly benefit from Neve s insight and writing, which includes personal interviews with the director himself. Book Verdict/Library Journal Neve has given us a multifaceted portrait of a complex, talented, and imperfect man who believed his rediscovery came too late. The many lives and careers of Cy Endfield tell an uneasy story about survival in the entertainment industry, especially during the tumult of the blacklist and years of exile in Britain. Joanna Rapf, editor of Interviews with Sidney Lumet Explores a blacklist victim whose life followed a different path than the better-known Dalton Trumbo. Shepherd Express One of the finest studies of an individual film director that I have had the pleasure of reading. Paul Buhle, Brown University, coauthor of Radical Hollywood and A Very Dangerous Citizen One of the finest studies of an individual film director that I have had the pleasure of reading. --Paul Buhle, Brown University, coauthor of Radical Hollywood and A Very Dangerous Citizen

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Brian Neve is an honorary reader in politics and film at the University of Bath, USA. He is the author of Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition and Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider and coeditor of “Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era.

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