Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection DVD

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection details

Format:	U DVD
Starring:	Kay Walsh, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Valerie Hobson, Dennis Price
Directors:	Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Hamer
Genres:	Comedy - British, General, Drama
Studio:	ELEVATION

DVD 5 discs

Name	Discs
The Last Holiday	U Disc 1
Kind Hearts and Coronets	U Disc 2
The Man in the White Suit	TBC Disc 3
Captain's Paradise	U Disc 4
Barnacle Bill	U Disc 5

DVD Information

Run time:	10 hours 18 minutes
Rental release:	01 Oct 2007
Main languages:	English

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Excellent; Dont Be Put-Out By B/W

By CashOnTheNail (130 reviews) from Manchester , 13 Mar 2008

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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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Highly Recommended

By Abby88 (167 reviews) from Bognor Regis , 02 Dec 2012

This film was a pleasant surprise to find. A witty and clever black comedy with a memorable and engaging plot.
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Clever & fun for the 50's

By a customer from Surrey , 08 Jun 2011

Guiness and cast bang on form in this comedy that zips along.

Know Gibralter quite well so was interesting to see it in the 1950's and the how the Brits lived there (fire in the hearth going all the time and playing at keeping Jonny Foreigner out).

Film worth it alone to see stiff upper lip Celia Johnson let her hair down and do a rumba/jive/salsa number and also Guiness do a flamenco number with a young and Rubenesque de Carlo!
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Revenge Is a Dish....

By buffyrules (335 reviews) from southend on sea , 19 May 2011

Absolute classic in so many ways-brilliant acting not just from Guinness and an excellent insight into the history of the U.K. and its numerous foibles and rituals. Paved the way for so many including Peter Sellers.
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The Greatest

By a customer from Colwyn Bay , 24 Jan 2010

Along with the Titfield Thunderbolt this is unquestionably the joint best of the Ealing comedies. It has the best script of them all and obviously the plot is delicious. It, rather unusually, kept all of my children happy and enthralled throughout. Finally, it has some of the best screen performances of British talent in cinema history. The definitive Ealing comedy, if you only see one see this one.
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brilliant

By janharvey (3 reviews) from Sheffield , 18 Jan 2010

Films like this are rare. a gentle yet fast paced black comedy. Charming and funny. I watched this film when i was a very young kid and after re-visiting it 15 years later it still has the same magic!
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