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Alexander Mackendrick - what members say

Sweet Smell of Success review by from London, England

Sweet Smell of Cynicism 28 September 2004
...Alexander Mackendrick may be best known in this country for Ealing Comedies, but this, his first foray into Hollywood, is surely his Greatest Achievement. The sly wit shown in The L... Read customer review

The Maggie review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales

Drama and comedy: but not black-and-white 24 October 2005
...hallenged by a modern U.S. businessman. But, typically for the work of director Alexander Mackendrick, the film does not resolve the issues it raises. The good and bad aspects of bo... Read customer review

Alexander Mackendrick - filmography

A High Wind In Jamaica on DVD (1965)
Starring: James Coburn, Nigel Davenport, Anthony Quinn
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Set on the high seas, this exciting and often hilarious adventure story concerns a group of children who are being sent to England by their parents, who are worried that their children are missing out on a civilized upbringing. But while floating across the ocean, a band of pirates hijacks the ship,..read more »

64% from 100 members

Sammy Going South on DVD (1963)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Sammy Going South is a rugged youngster's-eye-view adventure set in South Africa. 10-year-old orphan Sammy (Fergus McClelland), who resides in Port Said, tries to locate his only relative, who lives 5000 miles away across the desert in Durban. After the death of his first guide, an erstwhile ..read more »

71% from 89 members

Sweet Smell of Success on DVD (1957)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Director Alexander Mackendrick breaks away from black comedy (THE LADYKILLERS) and goes for full-fledged noir in this spectacular hard-boiled tale of greed, corruption, and brutality. In the flashing neon nighttime of NYC, grasping press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) trawls the city's toniest ..read more »

72% from 3,125 members

The Ladykillers on DVD (1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers ..read more »

73% from 10,136 members

The Ladykillers - Blu-ray (1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
THE LADYKILLERS, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous studio and one of its most celebrated. Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty, toothily threatening Professor Marcus, the leader of a crime ring planning a heist. Marcus rents rooms ..read more »

80% from 424 members

The Maggie on DVD (1954)
Starring: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

71% from 742 members

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 349 members

Mandy (1952)
Starring: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
The touching story of a young girl who was born deaf and the tussle between her parents over how she should be educated.

78% from 241 members
Not currently released

The Man in the White Suit on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
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Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

70% from 3,345 members

Whisky Galore! - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
WHISKY GALORE is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the precious liquid is wrecked on a reef. The islanders conspire to smuggle the whisky off the ship right under the ..read more »

71% from 148 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets on DVD (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-..read more »

72% from 9,052 members

Kind Hearts And Coronets - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
An Ealing Studio classic, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is considered th emost perfect of the Golden-Age Ealing comedies. A deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the ..read more »

83% from 190 members

Whisky Galore! (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Filmed at Barra in the outer Hebrides, Whisky Galore was based upon a true incident, the foundering of a cargo ship off the Isle Of Eriskay with 50,000 cases of Scotch aboard. The Scottish islanders of Todday by-pass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from ..read more »

73% from 3,507 members
Not currently released

Ealing Comedy Bonus Material - Forever E... on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Arthur Lowe
Director: Charles Crichton, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert
Certificate:
A look back at the days of Ealing comedies...

62% from 3,199 members

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Director: Henry Cass, Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Collection of five films starring the iconic British actor. Includes LAST HOLIDAY, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, CAPTAIN'S PARADISE and BARNACLE BILL.

76% from 911 members

Alexander Mackendrick facts

5 most recent films

A High Wind In Jamaica - 3.0 stars
Sammy Going South - 3.5 stars
Sweet Smell of Success - 3.5 stars
The Ladykillers - 3.5 stars
The Ladykillers - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kind Hearts And Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Ladykillers - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Mandy - 4.0 stars
Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection - 4.0 stars
Whisky Galore! - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ealing Comedy Bonus Material - Forever Ealing - 3.0 stars
A High Wind In Jamaica - 3.0 stars
Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars
The Man in the White Suit - 3.5 stars
The Maggie - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 9 times - show films
Cecil Parker - 9 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 7 times - show films
Dennis Price - 7 times - show films
Valerie Hobson - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Henry Cass - 6 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 6 times - show films
Anthony Kimmins - 1 times - show films
Alex - 1 times - show films
Charles Crichton - 1 times - show films