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Posts Tagged "Alec Guinness"
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Last Holiday **** (1950, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 2592
Director Henry Cass’s neat and nimble 1950 small-scale black comedy stars Alec Guinness, who is his usual expert and excellent self in a subtly sentimental, neatly scripted original story and screenplay by J B Priestley. […]
Kafka *** (1991, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey) – Classic Movie Review 2138
Director Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious and intriguing 1991 follow-up to his sensationally successful 1989 worldwide indie hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a murky mystery thriller about author Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) getting caught up in a strange […]
Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808
Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]
The Bridge on the River Kwai ***** (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa) – Classic Movie Review 1396
Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]
Great Expectations ***** (1946, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 843
Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]
Scrooge *** (1970, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 557
‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ***** (1977, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse) – Classic Movie Review 210
‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ ‘May the Force be with you.’ Star Wars blew like a breath of fresh air across cinema screens in 1977. Audiences were blown away being […]