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The Man in the White Suit (1951)
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STARS...........: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
DIRECTOR........: Alexander Mackendrick
WRITERS.........: Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick
GENRE...........: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876
RUNTIME.........: 1h 25mn
SIZE............: 3.69 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC ([email protected])
BITRATE.........: 6000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English AAC 1.0 200kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Studio Canal Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-12-18


Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Gough) is showing competitor Alan Bimley (Cecil Parker) around his plant, hoping to borrow some money and marry off his daughter Daphne (Joan Greenwood). They come upon a curious contraption that turns out to be an experiment by employee Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness). Being a lower class worker, Sidney is summarily fired from his job. Sidney ends up working at Bimley's factory, where he is befriended by militant worker Bertha (Vida Hope). Daphne spots Sidney at the factory and he explains to her the results of his experiment -- a material that is indestructible and impervious to dirt. Bimley discovers this project and throws Sidney out. But Daphne, impressed by his experiments, funds Sidney, installing him in his own laboratory. After a few false starts, Sidney develops a pure white material that can't be dirtied or ruined. But it seems Sidney's invention is too brilliant and effective; if a material is marketed that will last forever, textile mills will go out of business and workers will lose their jobs. Suddenly, poor, luckless Sidney has both management and labor banding together to combat his new invention.


Extras

• Revisiting The Man in the White Suit - In this featurette, director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, Dangerous Liaisons), film historian Ian Christie, and author and British film historian Richard Dacre discuss the unique qualities of The Man in the White Suit as well as the legacy of its director, Alexander Mackendrick.

• Restoration Comparison - A short demonstrative for StudioCanal's restoration of The Man in the White Suit.

• Trailer