I so associated Alec Guiness with those great comedies of the fifties that when
“The Bridge on the River Kwai” came out I couldn’t imagine him in a dramtic role.
I'm inclined to agree. This thread prompted me to plug in my recording of Kind Hearts which I'm watching as I type this. I love the characters of the Descoyne family members he played, particularly the idiot clergyman Lord Henry Descoyne ("...It has all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities"). Great stuff!
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I so associated Alec Guiness with those great comedies of the fifties...
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“The Man in The White Coat”
(at least I think that’s the title of an Alec Guiness jewel I saw
at least 15 years ago...back when cable actually broadcast something
other than the usual drivel.)
It was a funny and very intelligent about what would happen if somebody
made something wonderful...and how he’d pay for putting a lot of
people out of work at the same time.
Sort of like what would happen to the lab grunt that stumbled on
a “miracle” cure for most cancers.