Alec Guinness Collection, Alec Guinness, DVD

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Disc #1 -- Kind Hearts and Coronets
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:54]
2. The Silken Rope [4:39]
3. Family History and Humiliations [4:23]
4. The Seeds of Crime [4:10]
5. Sibella [4:52]
6. Monsters of Arrogance [1:05]
7. Young Asocyne D'Ascoyne [5:24]
8. Excellent Prospects [3:25]
9. Henry D'Ascoyne [6:30]
10. A Dish Served Cold [2:04]
11. Tea and Tragedy [2:17]
12. The Funeral [4:24]
13. Rising Fortunes [4:58]
14. Rev. Lord Henry D'Ascoyne [6:13]
15. Lady Agatha, The Admiral and the General [3:46]
16. The Heir Presumptive [4:11]
17. A Chat by the Fire [3:27]
18. The Offer Accepted [3:12]
19. A Matter of Some Delicacy [4:16]
20. Sibella's Bluff [3:27]
21. Ethelred D'Ascoyne [3:11]
22. Hunting Accident [4:21]
23. The Tenth Duke of Chalfont [3:20]
24. The Trial [4:57]
25. Louis in the Dock [2:33]
26. Two Miracles [6:18]
27. "How Happy Could I Be With Either?" [1:58]
28. End Credits [:42]
Disc #2 -- The Lavender Hill Mob
1. Program Start / Main Titles [2:00]
2. Big Spender [2:28]
3. Guardian of the Gold [3:28]
4. Lavender Hill Hotel [3:19]
5. Pendlebury's Profession [5:22]
6. Now or Never [2:47]
7. Unique Recruitment [4:57]
8. A Gilt-Edged Proposition [3:57]
9. A Beautiful Day for a Heist [4:51]
10. "They Got Mr. Pendlebury!" [4:31]
11. Case Dismissed [4:41]
12. Hero's Welcome [3:32]
13. Police Manhunt [4:36]
14. The Lanvender Hill Mob [2:00]
15. "The World Is Ours" [5:01]
16. Holland and Pendlebury Miss the Boat [3:25]
17. Under Suspicion [3:05]
18. Stubborn Little Girl [3:15]
19. Metropolitan Training School [5:28]
20. Stolen Car [4:12]
21. Old MdDonald Had a Farm [2:59]
22. End Credits [1:04]
Disc #3 -- The Man With the White Suit
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:48]
2. Potential Investor [4:39]
3. Over Budget [3:25]
4. Sidney's New Job [4:02]
5. Technical Expert [3:50]
6. Headstrong Daughter [5:34]
7. Amazing Experiment [4:14]
8. Visiting the Boss [4:39]
9. Indestructible [3:00]
10. Lab Accidents [4:07]
11. Success [3:15]
12. The Man in the White Suit [3:07]
13. Captains of Industry [3:47]
14. Vested Interests [2:53]
15. A New Contract [5:30]
16. Reluctant Houseguest [5:57]
17. Heart to Heart [3:06]
18. Strained Labor Relations [5:32]
19. Daphne's Defiance [5:02]
20. Man on the Run [2:57]
21. A Dream in Tatters [3:43]
22. End Credits [:52]
Disc #4 -- The Captain's Paradise
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:24]
2. Facing the Firing Squad [4:46]
3. Captain Henry St. James [3:53]
4. Pulling Into Port [4:43]
5. Tango [5:41]
6. Strict Disciplinarian [4:13]
7. Anniversary Present [5:13]
8. Twinkle-Toes [4:48]
9. A Little Carelessness [4:21]
10. Miscommunication [7:43]
11. Captain's Paradise [3:02]
12. Surpirse Visit [3:43]
13. Something in Common [5:02]
14. "Too Picturesque by Half" [5:01]
15. How the Other Half Lives [3:56]
16. Slip of the Tongue [2:54]
17. Wild at Heart [3:37]
18. "May This Go On Forever" [3:47]
19. Crime of Passion [4:41]
20. New House Keeper [5:10]
21. End Credits [:34]
Disc #5 -- The Ladykillers
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:47]
2. Mrs. Wilberforce [3:23]
3. The Mysterious Professor Marcus [5:06]
4. The Gang's All Here [4:02]
5. A Spot of Tea [3:48]
6. Bloody Nuisance [7:12]
7. The Heist [4:00]
8. All Aboard [2:58]
9. Pulling the Strings [2:46]
10. Horse and Buggy [3:01]
11. The Waiting Game [3:42]
12. Fond Farewells [3:29]
13. Suspicion [6:05]
14. Command Performance [5:11]
15. A Visit From the Police [3:51]
16. The Ladykillers [3:53]
17. A Spark of Decency [4:21]
18. Rooftop Accident [2:44]
19. Alliances [3:18]
20. Double-Cross [3:33]
21. Another Black Mark [2:44]
22. "Who Looks Stupid Now?" [2:45]
23. And Then There Were None [3:39]
24. Mrs. Wilberforce's Windfall [3:04]

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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood friend who ends up marrying a dullard, and Edith (Valerie Hobson), the beautiful widow of one of his victims with whom he plans to share his title. But just when Louis is ready to assume the D'Ascoyne mantle, a bizarre irony strikes. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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April 28, 2009: These Alec Guinness films all stand the test of time with their intelligence and subtlety. The advent of Computer enhancement and special effects has prevented the production of new films that meet these standards. It's wonderful to be able to revisit the golden age of British film making.

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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood friend who ends up marrying a dullard, and Edith (Valerie Hobson), the beautiful widow of one of his victims with whom he plans to share his title. But just when Louis is ready to assume the D'Ascoyne mantle, a bizarre irony strikes. Paul Brenner

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Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punchdrunk Danny Green. The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring 60,000 pound robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her. The Ladykillers won an Oscar nomination for William Rose's screenplay, and a BFA award for veteran character actress Johnson. Hal Erickson

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Charles Crichton directed The Lavender Hill Mob, an Ealing caper comedy with a witty, Academy Award-winning script by T.E.B. Clarke. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company, decides to reward himself by stealing one million pounds worth of gold. Calling on his old friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a manufacturer of paperweights and an amateur sculptor, and a couple of Cockney crooks, Lackery (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass), they conspire to lift a gold shipment. After absconding with the gold, Henry melts the gold into a collection of souvenir Eiffel Towers, which he then ships off to Paris. But chaos reigns when a group of English schoolgirls purchase the gold towers, and the gang now become embroiled in a wild goose chase to recover their stolen gold. Paul Brenner

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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in The Man in the White Suit, an 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. Paul Brenner

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In the bright British comedy The Captain's Paradise, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then learn of the curious chain of events that brought him to his fate. Henry is a ship's captain ferrying a steamer between Gibraltar and North Africa on a regular basis, and he's taken the notion of "a girl in every port" to a whole new level; he has a wife on each side of the water. In Gibraltar, there's Maude (Celia Johnson), an even-tempered housewife who keeps the house tidy and has dinner ready when Henry likes it. In North Africa, mate number two is Nita (Yvonne DeCarlo), who is a sultry fun seeker who likes to hit the nightspots and dance 'till dawn. Between the two of them, Henry would seem to have the best of both worlds; Chief Officer Ricco (Charles Goldner) openly envies Henry's remarkable romantic situation. But things start to go sour when Maude suddenly decides she's a stick in the mud and wants to start living it up, while Nita becomes a homebody and begins learning to cook; Henry is none too happy about either development, and before long he finds he has no spouse on either shore. The Captain's Paradise was trimmed from 93 to 84 minutes for its initial United States release. Mark Deming

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UPC: 012236102045
Source: LIONS GATE
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1), Vistavision (1.66:1)
Presentation: B&W, Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
Language: English, Fran�ais
Time: 7:31:00
Sales Rank: 9,155

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

Kind Hearts and Coronets
Lavender Hill Mob
Man In White Suit
The Captain's Paradise
The Ladykillers

Features:

Closed Caption; Alec Guiness bio; Theatrical trailers

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Kind Hearts and Coronets
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:54]
2. The Silken Rope [4:39]
3. Family History and Humiliations [4:23]
4. The Seeds of Crime [4:10]
5. Sibella [4:52]
6. Monsters of Arrogance [1:05]
7. Young Asocyne D'Ascoyne [5:24]
8. Excellent Prospects [3:25]
9. Henry D'Ascoyne [6:30]
10. A Dish Served Cold [2:04]
11. Tea and Tragedy [2:17]
12. The Funeral [4:24]
13. Rising Fortunes [4:58]
14. Rev. Lord Henry D'Ascoyne [6:13]
15. Lady Agatha, The Admiral and the General [3:46]
16. The Heir Presumptive [4:11]
17. A Chat by the Fire [3:27]
18. The Offer Accepted [3:12]
19. A Matter of Some Delicacy [4:16]
20. Sibella's Bluff [3:27]
21. Ethelred D'Ascoyne [3:11]
22. Hunting Accident [4:21]
23. The Tenth Duke of Chalfont [3:20]
24. The Trial [4:57]
25. Louis in the Dock [2:33]
26. Two Miracles [6:18]
27. "How Happy Could I Be With Either?" [1:58]
28. End Credits [:42]
Disc #2 -- The Lavender Hill Mob
1. Program Start / Main Titles [2:00]
2. Big Spender [2:28]
3. Guardian of the Gold [3:28]
4. Lavender Hill Hotel [3:19]
5. Pendlebury's Profession [5:22]
6. Now or Never [2:47]
7. Unique Recruitment [4:57]
8. A Gilt-Edged Proposition [3:57]
9. A Beautiful Day for a Heist [4:51]
10. "They Got Mr. Pendlebury!" [4:31]
11. Case Dismissed [4:41]
12. Hero's Welcome [3:32]
13. Police Manhunt [4:36]
14. The Lanvender Hill Mob [2:00]
15. "The World Is Ours" [5:01]
16. Holland and Pendlebury Miss the Boat [3:25]
17. Under Suspicion [3:05]
18. Stubborn Little Girl [3:15]
19. Metropolitan Training School [5:28]
20. Stolen Car [4:12]
21. Old MdDonald Had a Farm [2:59]
22. End Credits [1:04]
Disc #3 -- The Man With the White Suit
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:48]
2. Potential Investor [4:39]
3. Over Budget [3:25]
4. Sidney's New Job [4:02]
5. Technical Expert [3:50]
6. Headstrong Daughter [5:34]
7. Amazing Experiment [4:14]
8. Visiting the Boss [4:39]
9. Indestructible [3:00]
10. Lab Accidents [4:07]
11. Success [3:15]
12. The Man in the White Suit [3:07]
13. Captains of Industry [3:47]
14. Vested Interests [2:53]
15. A New Contract [5:30]
16. Reluctant Houseguest [5:57]
17. Heart to Heart [3:06]
18. Strained Labor Relations [5:32]
19. Daphne's Defiance [5:02]
20. Man on the Run [2:57]
21. A Dream in Tatters [3:43]
22. End Credits [:52]
Disc #4 -- The Captain's Paradise
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:24]
2. Facing the Firing Squad [4:46]
3. Captain Henry St. James [3:53]
4. Pulling Into Port [4:43]
5. Tango [5:41]
6. Strict Disciplinarian [4:13]
7. Anniversary Present [5:13]
8. Twinkle-Toes [4:48]
9. A Little Carelessness [4:21]
10. Miscommunication [7:43]
11. Captain's Paradise [3:02]
12. Surpirse Visit [3:43]
13. Something in Common [5:02]
14. "Too Picturesque by Half" [5:01]
15. How the Other Half Lives [3:56]
16. Slip of the Tongue [2:54]
17. Wild at Heart [3:37]
18. "May This Go On Forever" [3:47]
19. Crime of Passion [4:41]
20. New House Keeper [5:10]
21. End Credits [:34]
Disc #5 -- The Ladykillers
1. Program Start / Main Titles [1:47]
2. Mrs. Wilberforce [3:23]
3. The Mysterious Professor Marcus [5:06]
4. The Gang's All Here [4:02]
5. A Spot of Tea [3:48]
6. Bloody Nuisance [7:12]
7. The Heist [4:00]
8. All Aboard [2:58]
9. Pulling the Strings [2:46]
10. Horse and Buggy [3:01]
11. The Waiting Game [3:42]
12. Fond Farewells [3:29]
13. Suspicion [6:05]
14. Command Performance [5:11]
15. A Visit From the Police [3:51]
16. The Ladykillers [3:53]
17. A Spark of Decency [4:21]
18. Rooftop Accident [2:44]
19. Alliances [3:18]
20. Double-Cross [3:33]
21. Another Black Mark [2:44]
22. "Who Looks Stupid Now?" [2:45]
23. And Then There Were None [3:39]
24. Mrs. Wilberforce's Windfall [3:04]

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