Word: fabricators
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Guiness himself is superb as a wide-eyed young chemist who discovers an extraordinary fabric which can never spot and never wear out. Always slightly underplaying his role, he manages to extract every bit of humor from an essentially unfunny situation...
...message begins when Guinness tries to put his indestructible fabric on the market. He is of course opposed by the "vested interests" of capital and labor, both of which would be annihilated by the inevitable revolution in the textile industry that his invention would cause. To avoid this overproduction crisis, the fabric gets suppressed, and the consumer gets it in the neck. Actually this film may soothe a lot of nasty old mossbacks, who may infer that government intervention is necessary only when Alec Guinness comes along and invents a material which will throw a whole segment of the economy...
...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...
...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...