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Mackendrick, Alexander

The man in the white suit directed by Alexander Mackendrick. - Troy Anchor Bay Entertanment 2002. - 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. - The Alec Guinness Collection. . - Alec Guinness collection. .

Originally released in 1951 by EMI Films Limited. Full-frame presentation.

Screenplay, Roger MacDougall, Jogh Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick ; producer, Michael Balcon. Screenplay, Roger MacDougall, Jogh Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick ; producer, Michael Balcon.

Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Vida Hope.

A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British comedies. Alec Guinness, as a scientist, invents a fabric that will never wear out. Threatened with unemployment, the unions and a dismayed garment tycoon plot to destroy his miracle formula.


DVD.


Closed-captioned.
English and French tracks.

Publisher. No.: DV11476 Anchor Bay

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, British.

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43652 / MA-