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The Ealing Studios Collection: Vol. 1 (Blu-ray disc)
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Collection of three films from Britain's Ealing Studios all
starring Alec Guinness. In 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) an
embittered aristocrat sets out to murder the eight heirs that stand
between him and succession to the family title. Louis Mazzini
(Dennis Price) holds no love for the aristocratic family he counts
as relations, the D'Ascoynes. The family cast his mother out when
she decided to marry a 'commoner', Louis's father, and on her death
refuse to allow her to be buried in the family vault. An outraged
Louis vows revenge and begins working his way into the trust of the
family to provide him with the opportunity to bump off the male
heirs (all played by Guinness) one by one. However, complications
arise when he becomes romantically entangled with one of the widows
of his victims, Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson). Will Louis be
able to stay the course and murder his way to a Dukedom? In 'The
Lavender Hill Mob' (1951) Guinness stars as a mild-mannered bank
clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes
all manner of chaos. Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with
delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair
of hands by his employers. However, Henry harbours dreams of
becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes
the acquaintance of the artist, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley
Holloway). The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold
into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled
safely to France and sold on. However, things go awry when the gold
statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading
to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold
without their crime being detected. The film features a brief cameo
from a young Audrey Hepburn. In 'The Man in the White Suit' (1951)
eccentric Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a laboratory cleaner in a
textile factory, who invents a material that will neither wear out
nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's
astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they
realise that if it never wears out, people will only ever have to
purchase one suit of clothing.
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- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
- Bonus Footage
- Trailers
- Interviews: Charles Crichton (Director), T.E.B. Clarke
(Writer)
- Commentary: Peter Bradshaw (Film Critic), Terence Davies
(Writer/Director), Matthew Guinness (Son of Alec Guinness)
- Other Documentary: 'Dennis Price - Those British Faces',
'Revisiting 'The Man in the White Suit''
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