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Item Details
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SCREEN ICONS: ALEC GUINNESS
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| Starring: |
Gregoire Aslan,
Irene Browne,
Peter Bull,
Beatrice Campbell,
Yvonne de Carlo,
Walter Chisham,
Jean Colin,
Howard Marion Crawford,
Maurice Denham,
Patric Doonan,
Audrey Fildes,
Muriel George,
Charles Goldner,
Harold Goodwin,
Colin Gordon,
Michael Gough,
Joan Greenwood,
Hugh Griffith,
Alec Guinness,
Joan Harben,
Ann Heffernan,
Percy Herbert,
Valerie Hobson,
Vida Hope,
Sid James,
Lionel Jeffries,
Celia Johnson,
Duncan Lamont,
Tutte Lemkow,
Arthur Lowe,
Miles Malleson,
Clive Morton,
Cecil Parker,
John Penrose,
Dennis Price,
Cecil Rampage,
John Rudling,
Ernest Thesiger,
Kay Walsh
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| Format: |
DVD |
| List price:
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£22.99 |
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£19.31 |
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£3.68 |
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| Cat No: |
OPTD1064 |
| EAN: |
5055201801319 |
| Availability: |
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| Distributor: |
OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Regions: |
2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East) |
| Rel. date: |
1 October, 2007 |
| Certificate: |
TBA |
| Language: |
English |
| Description: |
Classic collection of the early films of Alec Guinness. In the classic 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 relatives (all 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 love with him. In 'Last Holiday' (1950), Guiness plays an agricultural salesman who finds out he has a short time to live. Taking a final holiday, he realises that he was actually a more interesting person than he allowed himself to be. In 'The Man In The White Suit' (1951), eccentric Sidney Stratton (Alec Guiness) is a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory, who invents a material that will 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 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 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 DeCarlo) in Tangiers. Everything is perfect as long as neither woman decides to visit the other port. In 'Barnacle 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 council object to the idea, planning to close the pier down, Ambrose has to use some lateral thinking to save the day. |
| Directors: |
Henry Cass,
Charles Frend,
Robert Hamer,
Anthony Kimmins,
Alexander MacKendrick
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| Genre: |
Classic
Feature
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| No. of pieces |
5 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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