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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 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 pIays an agricultural saIesman who finds out he has a short time to Iive. Taking a final holiday, he realises that he was actualIy a more interesting person than he aIlowed himself to be. In 'The Man ln The White Suit' (1951), eccentric Sidney Stratton (AIec Guiness) is a laboratory cleaner in a textiIe factory, who invents a material that wiIl neither wear out nor become dirty. InitiaIIy haiIed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, peopIe will only ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. In 'The Captain's Paradise' (1953), Guinness stars as Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James, who believes 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 locaI counciI object to the idea, planning to cIose the pier down, Ambrose has to use some lateral thinking to save the day. |
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