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Then check out this collection of these fantastic, classic Ealing Studios comedies starring the inimitable Alec Guinness. Strange and whimsical, these films are loaded with not only astringent British wit, but also quirky and intellectual characterizations, social satire, and impartial pure fun and outright slapstick. They cast a bemused and luminous ogle on British attitudes of class & propriety, and poked entertaining fun at them. Briefly:
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT: A colorful but stubbornly obtuse and obsessed scientist pursues his dream of a miracle fabric in the heart of the British textile industry, in the extinguish delicate no one but himself. As he is beset by conservative owners on one side, and radical unionists on the other, we secure a light satire on the mixed blessings of technology.
THE CAPTAIN’S PARADISE: A ship’s captain has a wife in each port, one for domesticity and one for fun. So elated with his hold pleasure he doesn’t realize that each woman is only half-fulfilled by such an way until the applecart is upset.
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KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS: Guinness plays all the members of an aristocratic family being done-away-with by a disinfranchised illegitimate heir (a deliciously arch Dennis Effect) . A bunch of clueless upper class twits are done-in by a clever and ruthless “tradesman”.
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB: An apparently meek and unambitious clerk masterminds the perfect gold heist with the serve of some bumbling cohorts. Everything that goes ghastly turns out to go fair and they bring off a large robbery. But, of course, there is a snag….proving the “wobbewy” was the easy fragment. (Loved the divulge!)
THE LADY KILLERS: Saved the best for last. Guinness is the “Professor” a shining, half-mad mastermind of a motley gang of crooks. Using his unwitting landlady in the enlighten robbery, a quick-witted but “flawed” stroke, the gang is stymied in their getaway and begins to deconstruct themselves one by one while trying to “deal” with Mrs.”Lopsided”. This delectably unlit petite comedy is a gem, building its hilarity bit by bit concisely and economically. A classic comedy.
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In all of these films Alec Guinness is ably supported by some of the cream of British acting, including: the aforementioned Dennis Label, plus Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michal Gough, Stanley Holloway, Herbert Lom and Peter Sellars.
For those with a taste for wit and whimsy, these classic films are a delight!
The films are:
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Kind Hearts & Coronets
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man in the White Suit
The Ladykillers
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The Captain’s Paradise
The last is available only in the residence while the others can be bought
separately.
The movies, of course, are all pleasant so I’m impartial commenting on the quality of the DVDs.
I got the collection for Christmas and haven’t watched all the films yet but did go through the ones I haven’t watched to notice how the transfers looked — all extremely advantageous, probably the best I’ve ever seen them.
“The Ladykillers” is Distinguished improved over the VHS versions I’ve rented which tended to have both very greyed out blacks and blown highlights. The film is in widescreen format with shadowy bars at top and bottom. The rest of the movies were filmed in 4×3 ratio – which is how they are presented.
There are closed captions but only the type that must be area on the TV – the white lettering within a dusky band. There are none of the type available on many DVDs without banding, however I contemplate most Tv sets, at least the ones owned by those of us who need the captions are now first-rate of showing the standard caption format. For everything I’ve watched so far the captions are quite right.
Which brings up the sound. English film soundtracks (and the BBC — especially the BBC) have always been somewhat abominable. It isn’t simply a matter of us Yanks not being able to comprehend the accents, but of truly bad sound equipment and perhaps a somewhat less than skilled bunch of sound recordists. These DVD transfers sound unbiased okay compared to something like the DVD of “The Maltese Falcon” but they sound remarkable better than the VHS
editions of the same films so I’m glorious delighted and I seek information from most people will be able to follow the dialog without problems. For one thing all these movies were made before the “F/X boys got control of the soundtracks — yet another crime perpetrated by George Lucas and the other hacks who’ve made the movies practically a brain-dead medium.
In terms of extras:
Every film comes with the trailer — for those who want to study the damn things.
Every film is available dubbed into French — don’t ask me about the sound quality – I haven’t listened.
Every film carrys a brief bio of Guinness. There is one oddity in that one of his best early films “The Card” (US title “The Promoter”) is not mentioned in the course of the bio and is not included in the filmography. There may be others missing too, but I wanted to status The Card in it’s time related to those the the collection and it simply wasn’t there.
There is also no mention of the film appearance he made in 1936 which is left out of most lists but is in Halliwells book of movie people – I don’t know if Halliwell was moral or snide on that.
The only other thing of major interest is on Star Wars, where (According to the bio) Guinness was supposed to be an on-screen presence throughout the film, but managed to convince Lucas that he would be distinguished better as a ghost, and therefore got his character killed off early to avoid hanging around mouthing banal dialog for the entire shoot. As one who has avoided all Lucas films since my hold children got conventional enough to go to the theater without me, I consider Sir Alec made an great choice — The Intellectual was with him.
Overall I am very blissful with my DVDs and anxiously await the next spot which I HOPE includes “The Card” along with “Last Holiday” “All at Sea” “The Horse’s Mouth” and “Our Man in Havana”. The third plot could inaugurate with “Expansive Expectations” and “Oliver Twist”. “HMS Defiant” would have to be in there, but “Tunes of Glory” although a titanic movie is perhaps too distinguished of a downer to gape very often — once a decade, perhaps… perhaps not that often. It’s been at least 12 years since I last saw it, and I’m not certain I’m up for it yet.
If you like Guinness, win this collection. I don’t care what kind of Guinness you like, I know this region will go down tranquil.
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