The Man in the White Suit (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 3, 2019
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood & Cecil Parker | |
Performer: | Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Howard Marion-Crawford, Duncan Lamont, Harold Goodwin, Colin Gordon & Ewan Roberts | |
Directed by | Alexander Mackendrick | |
Edited by | Bernard Gribble | |
Screenwriting by | Roger MacDougall, John Dighton & Alexander Mackendrick | |
Composition by | Benjamin Frankel | |
Produced by | Michael Balcon | |
Director of Photography: | Douglas Slocombe |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Clever and witty, this Oscar-nominated British comedy displays the talents of Alec Guinness long before he became an international star with Bridge on the River Kwai.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The film is a paean to individualism, dreamers and pioneers, and seems to advocate that, fundamentally, society functions best on an equilibrium between capital and labour.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: A --
A witty Ealing Studios satirical mad scientist comedy that concerns itself with modern day societal and technological problems.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
5 stars out of 5 -- Mackendrick slyly skewers every political stance along the spectrum from Left to Right.
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
That Stratton proves so unable to resist his hubris surely provides the film with a cautionary subtext, but this is beautifully complicated by an ending that denies the possibility of rehabilitation.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
Shows what the extraordinary Alec Guinness can bring to a role.
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Film Frenzy
While on the surface it's a comic fable with a sense of humor as dry as a cracker, the movie possesses a sharp edge that rises like a shark fin above the natty British drollery.
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DVDJournal.com
Product Description:
Based on the play by Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick's second film (which he cowrote) is a winning comedy about the battles between labor, capitalists, and scientific dreamers. Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) works quietly at Michael Corland's (Michael Gough) textile mill until his mysterious, costly lab experiment is discovered. Fired by Corland, Stratton takes a menial job at Alan Birnley's (Cecil Parker) mill in order to continue his work on the sly. When Daphne (Joan Greenwood), Corland's fiancée and Birnley's daughter, discovers his secret, she threatens to expose Stratton. The desperate scientist reveals to Daphne that he has invented an indestructible cloth that never gets dirty. Close to realizing his vision, Stratton celebrates by having a white suit made of the fabric (because it repels dye). The trouble, however, is just beginning. The lowly mill workers (who spout market economics in rough accents) fear for their jobs while the mill owners, led by the decrepit Godfather-esque Sir John Kierlaw (Ernest Thesiger), worry about their profits. In a series of entertaining chase scenes and attempted double crosses, the impish yet determined Stratton (sporting his luminous suit) struggles to defend his hard-won discovery from the mob.
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- Sales Rank: 106,476
- UPC: 738329236380
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