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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. And yet his importance only became clear recently when a huge archive of his work surfaced at auction. With the help of Harold's family, Matthew Sweet goes on the trail of the man from the McCarthy Agency - and along the way uncovers a lost world of forgotten cinema, to which McCarthy's work is now our only guide