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The Alec Guinness Collection (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Ladykillers / The Man in the White Suit / The Captain's Paradise) |  | Directors: Alexander Mackendrick, Anthony Kimmins, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Actors: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Peter Sellers, Stanley Holloway
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
Buy New: $79.95
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Seller: great_throwdini
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 65647
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 451 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 3
MPN: ANBD12099D
UPC: 013131209990
EAN: 0013131209990
ASIN: B00006FMAX
Theatrical Release Date: September 28, 1953
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Five of the British film industry's best-loved comedies in one boxed set makes The Alec Guinness Collection absolutely essential for anyone who has any passion at all for movies. It contains Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Captain's Paradise (1953) (only available in this set), and The Ladykillers (1955). The Ealing Studio's greatest comedies captured the essence of post-war Britain, both in their evocation of a land once blighted by war but now rising doggedly and optimistically again from the ashes, and in their mordant yet graceful humor. They portray a country with an antiquated class system whose crumbling conventions are being undermined by a new spirit of individual opportunism. In the delightfully wicked Kind Hearts and Coronets, a serial killer politely murders his way into the peerage; in The Lavender Hill Mob a put-upon bank clerk schemes to rob his employers; The Man in the White Suit is a harshly satirical depiction of idealism crushed by the status quo; in The Captain's Paradise, a ferryboat captain complements his proper British wife with a fiery Spanish wife; while The Ladykillers mocks both the criminals and the authorities with its unlikely octogenarian heroine Mrs. "lop-sided" Wilberforce. Many factors contribute to these films' success--including fine music scores from composers such as Benjamin Frankel (Man in the White Suit), Malcolm Arnold (Captain's Paradise), and Tristram Cary (The Ladykillers); positively symphonic sound effects (White Suit); marvelously evocative locations (the environs of King's Cross in Ladykillers, for example); and writing that always displays Ealing's unique perspective on British social mores ("All the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period")--yet arguably their greatest asset is Alec Guinness, whose multifaceted performances are the keystone upon which Ealing built its biting, often macabre, yet always elegant comedy. --Mark Walker
Product Description
Contains five ealing studios classics - kind hearts & coronets ladykillers man in the white suit & lavender hill mob. Plus box has captains paradise exclusively. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 451 minutes
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 Kind Hearts and Coronets August 29, 2010
Sue Squires (Calgary, AB, Canada)
Although there are several other excellent Alec Guinness comedies in this set, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" is, for me, the most memorable and hilarious of all his movies. The collection is worth every penny of its price for this movie alone. The movie is superb, as is each and every role that A.G. plays in it.
That said -- all of the other movies in this collection are extremely good, enjoyable, and funny, too. Sir Alec could melt into any role he did, but for me he will always be remembered best for his comedies. If you're going to buy any movies at all with Alec Guinness in, I would recommend this set.
SueS
a collection of the great comedies of Alec Guiness August 24, 2010
W. Tappan Lum
It was a great pleasure to revisit the great English comedies of the 50's and 60's with Alec Guiness.
Alec Guinnes Collection June 5, 2010
Dietrich A. Weyel
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Five great movies with a great script, great acting and great directing, they don't make them like this anymore .................... I watched everyone of them already three times, Do not exspect computer animation, fortunately it is not there. Those are real actors, refreshing
 Two Thieves, A Captain, An Inventor, and A Heir April 25, 2010
Magnifying Glass
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
'The Ladykillers' (4) - Mrs. Wilberforce, grey in years and crowned with a flowered hat, is well known at the nearby police station for reporting on odd doings in the neighborhood. So you would think a gang of toughs planning a heist would know better than to use her as a patsy ... This is the only color film.
'The Lavender Hill Mob' (4) - For years, an apparently honest man has overseen the transfer of gold bars from the foundry to the bank. He could steal it, but then, how to get it out of the country? A new hotel tenant gives him an idea ... There is a great action sequence: a race down the Eiffel Tower; you may get a little dizzy!
'The Captain's Paradise' (4) - The small passenger ship 'Golden Fleece' steams to-and-fro from Gibraltar to the Spanish port of Cadiz. Its captain has found - in what he thinks is the perfect setup - a way to live two lives. One: a quiet domestic life with a servile wife in Gibraltar and the other: a wild carefree life with a dancer in Cadiz.
'The Man in the White Suit' (3) - A Maverick inventor finds himself on a merry-go-round of menial jobs in the textile mills. Unappreciated by his short-sighted superiors, he would one day show them, and he does, he invents something that will revolutionize the industry. What he hadn't visualized was that short-sightedness would still rule the day.
'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (2) - A man feels that the heirs have cheated him out of a dukedom and - with an exaggerated sense of injustice - he systematically and nonchalantly begins murdering them. This movie's slow pacing, excessive narration, and lack of action made it difficult to sit through.
Picture (DVD): good. Extras: trailers; written Guinness bio.
The Alec Guinness Collection April 8, 2010
Alan Robinson (Barkers Creek, Victoria, AU)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why oh why don't they make films like this any more, just entertainment for entertainments sake with good quirky off beat humour
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