The Man in the White Suit
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Alec Guinness (Sidney Stratton)
Joan Greenwood (Daphne Birnley)
Cecil Parker (Alan Birnley)
Vida Hope (Bertha)
Michael Gough (Michael Corland)
Ernest Thesiger (Sir John Kierlaw)
Howard Marion-Crawford (Cranford)
Henry Mollison (Hoskins)
Patric Doonan (Frank)
Duncan Lamont (Harry)
Joan Harben (Miss Johnson)
Arthur Howard (Roberts)
Roddy Hughes (Green)
Harold Goodwin (Lab Technician)















The most satirical of Ealing's comedies, played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint. Alec Guinness, by now the most ubiquitous of Ealing faces, plays a would be research chemist who invents a fabric which will never soil or wear out. Before the threatened unions and business owners can destroy his formula a flaw is revealed - the fabric disintegrates! One of the highlights is Joan Greenwood's rapt response to Guinness' scientific jargon - an enchanting piece of screen comedy and surely a contributor to the Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were produced for the sound track by a tuba and a bassoon.(50 pictures)
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2nd October, 2007 - Alec Guinness DVD release on 1st October, 2007
17th October, 2004 - Ealing Comedy - The Complete Set to be released on DVD

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Production Information

The Man in the White Suit - GB (Ealing), 1951, 81 minutes, B&W, Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick (Writers), Alexander Mackendrick (Director)
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