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The Alec Guinness Collection (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Ladykillers / The Man in the White Suit / The Captain's Paradise) DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: Starz / Anchor Bay :: Released: 2002-09-10

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The Alec Guinness Collection (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Ladykillers / The Man in the White Suit / The Captain's Paradise) Summary Contains Five Ealing Studios Classics - Kind Hearts & Coronets Ladykillers Man In The White Suit & Lavender Hill Mob. Plus Box Has Captains Paradise Exclusively. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run Time: 451 Minutes

Five of the British film industry's best-loved comedies in one boxed set makes The Alec Guinness Collection absolutely essential for anyone who has any passion at all for movies. It contains Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Captain's Paradise (1953) (only available in this set), and The Ladykillers (1955). The Ealing Studio's greatest comedies captured the essence of post-war Britain, both in their evocation of a land once blighted by war but now rising doggedly and optimistically again from the ashes, and in their mordant yet graceful humor. They portray a country with an antiquated class system whose crumbling conventions are being undermined by a new spirit of individual opportunism. In the delightfully wicked Kind Hearts and Coronets, a serial killer politely murders his way into the peerage; in The Lavender Hill Mob a put-upon bank clerk schemes to rob his employers; The Man in the White Suit is a harshly satirical depiction of idealism crushed by the status quo; in The Captain's Paradise, a ferryboat captain complements his proper British wife with a fiery Spanish wife; while The Ladykillers mocks both the criminals and the authorities with its unlikely octogenarian heroine Mrs. "lop-sided" Wilberforce. Many factors contribute to these films' success--including fine music scores from composers such as Benjamin Frankel (Man in the White Suit), Malcolm Arnold (Captain's Paradise), and Tristram Cary (The Ladykillers); positively symphonic sound effects (White Suit); marvelously evocative locations (the environs of King's Cross in Ladykillers, for example); and writing that always displays Ealing's unique perspective on British social mores ("All the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period")--yet arguably their greatest asset is Alec Guinness, whose multifaceted performances are the keystone upon which Ealing built its biting, often macabre, yet always elegant comedy. --Mark Walker

Alec Guinness Collection [5 Discs] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Peter Sellers, Stanley Holloway
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer Array
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 451 mins
UPC: 013131209990
Binding: DVD
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: 2002-09-10
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Original Language),