Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection
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. Read more
| Starring | Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Dennis Price |
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| Director | Henry Cass, Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick |
| Run time | 618 mins |
| Genres | Drama |
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Excellent; Dont Be Put-Out By B/W
Kind Hearts & Coronets; heir to a noble family Alec Guiness [Lavender Hill Mob, The] is forced to accept a menial-job when his mother’s family refuse to accept his existence. Rejected by childhood-sweetheart Joan Greenwood [Young Wives Tale] Alec plots revenge on those who ruined his life & disowned his mother who married for love…
Man In The White Suit; scientist Alec Guiness [Kind Hearts & Coronets] moves from one mill to another exploiting their facilities in his quest to produce a synthetic fibre that ‘never gets dirty & never wears out’. Alec’s R&D rattles-up thousands of pounds, a considerable sum at the time, in ‘sundries’; hushed-up lest shareholders discover the truth. Deemed ‘insane’ by his previous employers he convinces mill owners Cecil Parker [Man Could Get Killed, A] daughter Joan Greenwood [Whisky Galore] not to report him to her father. Having created his miracle-fibre rival mill-owners, commodity-dealers & workers…
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- CashOnTheNail from Manchester
- Posted 13 Mar 2008 18:49
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50s Them 'n Us
Early 50's take on the iniquities of the capitalist process. At that time of couse there were no actors with regional accents, especially Northerners (we had to wait for Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay to come along with proper northern voices), so we had to make do with RADA trained actors pretending to be the salt of the earth. Vida Hope gives a particularly strange version of a Northern lass. It grates now but people probably accepted it then. Alec Guiness is great as the maverick inventor of course, but he was a great screen actor who could turn his talents to anything. There are very amusing scenes but the farce gets a little too frantic in the last part of the film. How much it changed people's perceptions of 'them 'n us' we have still to find out 57 years later in this class ridden country of ours.
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