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...Admiral being given an award for service. Sits down to tell his story. Bystanders kind of talk in unison, mumble questioningly on cue. Corny serious--you can see the script in big letters in your mind. "My family has been in nautical circles ever since we can remember," says Alec Guinness thoughtfully. And the scene dissolves into an Alec Guinness caveman paddling his primitive canoe-thing around in little circles...
...Alec Guinness is king of this world, moving about (into the middle of traffic or otherwise) with a perfect, beautiful composure. He would have loved to have been a sailor, but he gets seasick all the time, so he has to make do without actual water. But everything else is the same. In his home on the pier, a boardwalk fun house tilted 45 degrees, he sleeps in a hammock, serves coffee to plump lady guests, catches them tactfully by the knees when they slide off their tilted chairs, and paces the floor (with some difficulty on the uphill...
...River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras, six famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy) and one comparatively obscure young man (Peter OToole) who will soon be as famous as anybody in show business. And though Lawrence falls far short of Kwai in dramatic impact, it nevertheless presents a vivid and intelligent spectacle...
...Lavender Hill Mob" with Alec Guinness, which laughs its way through an implausible gold robbery. It goes on at 5:30, 7:30, and 9:30 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre...
...married to Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, he is quieter. "I was a wild man," he says, "but that's not all. I'm an actor. That's my bloody business. I'm the hardest working actor I know." And he knows quite a few. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy play supporting roles to his T.E. Lawrence in a script written by Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons) and directed by David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai). All agree that Peter O'Toole...