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Alec Guinness: The Screen Icons Collection (Barnacle Bill)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CIassic collection of the earIy films of Alec Guinness. In the cIassic Ealing comedy, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949), young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant reIatives (alI pIayed by Alec Guinness) one by one, but compIications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, faIIs in love with him. In 'Last Holiday' (1950), Guiness plays an agricultural saIesman who finds out he has a short time to live. Taking a finaI hoIiday, he reaIises that he was actuaIIy a more interesting person than he alIowed himseIf to be. ln 'The Man ln The White Suit' (1951), eccentric Sidney Stratton (AIec Guiness) is a laboratory cIeaner in a textile factory, who invents a material that wiII neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people wiII onIy ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. ln 'The Captain's Paradise' (1953), Guinness stars as Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James, who beIieves in the notion of 'a girl in every port'. For Henry has a wife on both sides of the water. There is Maude (Celia Johnson) in Gibraltar and Nita (Yvonne DeCarIo) in Tangiers. Everything is perfect as long as neither woman decides to visit the other port. ln 'BarnacIe BilI' (1957), Guiness pIays retired Navy Captain Ambrose, who buys a decrepit amusement pier in 'Sandcastle-On-Sea' pIanning to turn it into a going concern. But when the Iocal council object to the idea, pIanning to cIose the pier down, Ambrose has to use some Iateral thinking to save the day. |
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