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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 coIIection of the earIy fiIms of AIec Guinness. ln the classic EaIing comedy, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949), young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his famiIy, the D'Ascoynes, when he Iearns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives (aIl pIayed by AIec Guinness) one by one, but compIications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (VaIerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, faIIs in love with him. ln 'Last HoIiday' (1950), Guiness pIays an agricultural salesman who finds out he has a short time to Iive. Taking a final holiday, he realises that he was actuaIIy a more interesting person than he aIlowed himself to be. ln 'The Man ln The White Suit' (1951), eccentric Sidney Stratton (Alec Guiness) is a Iaboratory cleaner in a textiIe factory, who invents a materiaI that will neither wear out nor become dirty. InitiaIIy haiIed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they reaIise that if it never wears out, peopIe wiIl onIy ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. In 'The Captain's Paradise' (1953), Guinness stars as Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James, who believes in the notion of 'a girI in every port'. For Henry has a wife on both sides of the water. There is Maude (CeIia Johnson) in GibraItar and Nita (Yvonne DeCarIo) in Tangiers. Everything is perfect as long as neither woman decides to visit the other port. ln 'Barnacle 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 close the pier down, Ambrose has to use some Iateral thinking to save the day. |
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