The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
A laboratory technician at a textile mill formulates a material that never gets dirty and does not wear out, but is hounded by the representatives of both capital and labour, whose interest it is to suppress it.
Review:
Delightful industrial fantasy/satire almost a decade before I'm All Right Jack targeted similar capitalist thinking. One of the best Ealing comedies, its initiating contraption a masterpiece of the kind of musical wackiness for which British cinema stands unique; it is also one of the more serious in tone, and for that reason was perhaps less well liked. The irrepressible scientific urge to create of its main character is at once endorsed (by Daphne's admiration) and challenged (by Bertha's). The film positions itself adroitly on the fence of mischievous suggestion, a hallmark of the Ealing stable.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
A laboratory technician at a textile mill formulates a material that never gets dirty and does not wear out, but is hounded by the representatives of both capital and labour, whose interest it is to suppress it.
Review:
Delightful industrial fantasy/satire almost a decade before I'm All Right Jack targeted similar capitalist thinking. One of the best Ealing comedies, its initiating contraption a masterpiece of the kind of musical wackiness for which British cinema stands unique; it is also one of the more serious in tone, and for that reason was perhaps less well liked. The irrepressible scientific urge to create of its main character is at once endorsed (by Daphne's admiration) and challenged (by Bertha's). The film positions itself adroitly on the fence of mischievous suggestion, a hallmark of the Ealing stable.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
A laboratory technician at a textile mill formulates a material that never gets dirty and does not wear out, but is hounded by the representatives of both capital and labour, whose interest it is to suppress it.
Review:
Delightful industrial fantasy/satire almost a decade before I'm All Right Jack targeted similar capitalist thinking. One of the best Ealing comedies, its initiating contraption a masterpiece of the kind of musical wackiness for which British cinema stands unique; it is also one of the more serious in tone, and for that reason was perhaps less well liked. The irrepressible scientific urge to create of its main character is at once endorsed (by Daphne's admiration) and challenged (by Bertha's). The film positions itself adroitly on the fence of mischievous suggestion, a hallmark of the Ealing stable.