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The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit (2012)

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Release Date: Nov 16, 2012 Limited

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Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) has a dream: to develop a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. His textile mill bosses discover his secret experiments and initially ban him from their laboratories. But when Daphne (Joan Greenwood) comes to understand what Sidney is trying to do, she convinces her father, Mr. Birnley (Cecil Parker), that developing Sidney's fabric would be great for business...and mankind. Little do they know that they will spark an uprising, not only among the

Sep 10, 2002

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Universal Pictures

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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (0) | DVD (10)

That Stratton proves so unable to resist his hubris surely provides the film with a cautionary subtext, but this is beautifully complicated by an ending that denies the possibility of rehabilitation.

November 10, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Clever and witty, this Oscar-nominated British comedy displays the talents of Alec Guinness long before he became an international star with Bridge on the River Kwai.

July 16, 2012 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

Alec Guinness' sharp bird nose and watery eyes helped him play characters who were misfits on the margins of society. He made for a kindly but stubborn rebel in the Ealing comedies.

May 23, 2011 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

A witty Ealing Studios satirical mad scientist comedy that concerns itself with modern day societal and technological problems.

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

While on the surface it's a comic fable with a sense of humor as dry as a cracker, the movie possesses a sharp edge that rises like a shark fin above the natty British drollery.

April 6, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com
DVDJournal.com

Anchor Bay's DVD release ... rightfully honors both Guinness and the Ealing comedies from the '40s and '50s. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's work is preserved in a print that is a thing of beauty...

April 6, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com
DVDJournal.com

Clever Ealing comedy, though perhaps not as great as its legend.

September 11, 2003
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for The Man in the White Suit

"Man in the White Suit" is perhaps, along with "Kind Hearts and Coronets," the pinnacle of the Ealing film. It's a very sophisticated and subtle comedy/farce that takes a dig at a number of the cultural institutions that characterise northern England. It's not so much a satire directed at capitalism but an opprobrium of the suspicious relationship between capital and labour and the broader unworkable relationship of commercial achievement with scientific progress. The success of the film resides in the subtlety with which these issues are explored and the even-handedness by which they are dealt with. At a more basic level the film is an excellent example of a farce as the frustration, misinterpretation and exaggerated comedy are delivered with a breath-taking pace. Very well written, even better direction and uniformly spot-on performances make this one of the great British films of the 1950s.
February 10, 2011
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Another great Ealing Comedy, with the star of the studio, Alec Guiness always teriffic in the productions. Not as great as previoious ealing productions, such as Kind Hearts and Coronets, but still a must see, for British comedy and Ealing fans.
June 22, 2006
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Foreign Titles

  • The Man in the White Suit (1951) (DE)
  • The Man in the White Suit (1951) (UK)
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