The Man from the McCarthy Agency



Matthew Sweet reveals the untold story of Harold McCarthy, arguably the most powerful British film critic of the twentieth century despite the fact that his name never appeared in a newspaper byline. From the 1930s to the 1960s, McCarthy supplied reviews of 11,000 films to independent cinema managers from Cork to Calcutta - reviews that shaped what cinemagoers saw on the screen. Yet his importance only became clear recently when a huge archive of his work surfaced at auction.



A very interesting radio documentary.



Comment from Philip French (cinema critic of the Observer) who is amused by McCarty's review of Citizen Kane (puzzled) and the ever reliable Prof Ian Christie who comments on McCarthy's rave review of One of Our Aircraft is Missing amongst many others



Steve