蒙哈·达尼切夫斯基，Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919 due to the civil war raging in the country at the time. He started working as a publicity director at Ealing in 1938, helping develop and design many of the company's posters. In 1943 he turned his hand to scriptwriting. His first produced screenplay was Undercover (1943).