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Woolworth Hour (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Percy Faith, Alec Templeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then losing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...systematic, fair and thrifty man, William divided his weekly income of ?11 ($30.80) equally between the two families, giving each wife ?5 and keeping ?i for himself. His job, like that of Alec Guinness' bigamous seafarer in the movie The Captain's Paradise, made it simple, even obligatory, for him to be absent from each of his homes for stated periods. He was careful to spend Christmas and New Year's Day alternately at either home. To avoid any embarrassing slips of the tongue, William had even arranged as far as possible to give the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trucker's Paradise | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Ladykillers (Rank; Continental) is another Alec Guinness romp, in some ways even funnier than his 1951 Lavender Hill Mob. It is also a refreshing parody on the current rash of U.S. films, e.g., The Desperate Hours, The Night Holds Terror, in which humble citizens are terrorized by hoodlums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...Prisoner has tortured Boston for five weeks, and neither Alec Guinness or Boston seems to be getting weary. At the Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 2/17/1956 | See Source »

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