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...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric (TIME, April...
...possible, yet "not wholly fantastic." Last week Ealing's latest, The Man in the White Suit (see below), was being greeted with whoops of laughter by audiences in Manhattan. True to formula, the story is improbable but possible (it revolves around a scientist who invents an indestructible fabric), and it proved once again that Ealing's methods-at least by Hollywood's standards-are nearly as fantastic as the picture's plot...
...White Suit (Rank; Universal-International) spins a colorful yarn out of whole cloth about a research chemist (Alec Guinness) who invents an artificial fabric that will never stain or wear out. The result is top-grade movie material with the quality of good British woolen, the frothiness of fine French lace...
...Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...
Even though it is the biggest wool and worsted fabric maker in the world, American Woolen Co. has been badly scared by the textile depression. Its three-block-long mill in Lawrence, Mass., world's largest worsted mill, is running at about half speed, and its 21 other mills in New England are either running below capacity or have been shut down...