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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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Classic 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 played by Alec Guinness) one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, falls in Iove with him. In 'Last Holiday' (1950), Guiness plays an agricuIturaI salesman who finds out he has a short time to live. Taking a finaI holiday, he reaIises that he was actually a more interesting person than he allowed 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 reaIise that if it never wears out, peopIe will only 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 Gibraltar and Nita (Yvonne DeCarlo) in Tangiers. Everything is perfect as Iong as neither woman decides to visit the other port. ln 'BarnacIe Bill' (1957), Guiness plays retired Navy Captain Ambrose, who buys a decrepit amusement pier in 'Sandcastle-On-Sea' planning to turn it into a going concern. But when the local counciI 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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