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...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...head of an otherwise all-British cast, Actress Dunne shares honors with her make-up man for a competent, unspectacular performance. As Disraeli, Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness gives a superb reading of a long, eloquent speech in the House of Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven...
Kind Hearts and Coronets. Britain's Alec Guinness playing eight roles in a comedy of Edwardian manners and murders that takes the year's honors for irony, urbanity and impudent wit (TIME, July...
...years ago, while setting up U.S. engagements for Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's version of Oliver Twist, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank ran into a clamor of protest. Jewish groups protested Dickens' "villainous and repulsive" Fagin, as played in the movie by Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in exaggerated make-up modeled on the famed Cruikshank drawings. Was the movie Fagin a public demonstration of antiSemitism? Rank bowed to the outcry, postponed the U.S. opening "indefinitely" (TIME...
...Alec Guiness' performance is of high quality, which, of course, is his standard. His role is a tenth success added to the nine with which American audiences are familiar--"The Cocktail Party" and eight others in "Kind Hearts and Coronets...