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The man in the white suit
- Title
- The man in the white suit / EMI Films Limited ; a Michael Balcon production ; directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
- Publication
- Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Corp., ©1994, 1951.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Moving image | Use in library | VCASS 2 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (81 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British comedies. Alec Guinness, as a scientist, invents a fabric that will never wear out. Threatened with unemployment, the unions and a dismayed garment tycoon plot to destroy his miracle formula.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Foreign films
- Science fiction films
- Comedy films
- Feature films
- Comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Science fiction films.
- Films comiques.
- Films de science-fiction.
- Note
- VHS format.
- "VHS 5914."
- Originally released in 1951 by EMI Films Limited.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Alexander Mackendrick; producer, Michael Balcon; writers, Roger Macdougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick; music, Benjamin Frankel.
- Performer (note)
- Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker.
- System Details (note)
- VHS format.
- ISBN
- 0782003419
- 9780782003413
- OCLC
- ocm31367700
- 31367700
- SCSB-1239581
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library