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Release Date: 1951

Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Harben, Vida Hope, Patric Doonan, Harold Goodwin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Duncan Lamont, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Greenwood, Henry Mollison, Colin Gordon, Michael Gough ...MORE

Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Harben, Vida Hope, Patric Doonan, Harold Goodwin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Duncan Lamont, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Greenwood, Henry Mollison, Colin Gordon, Michael Gough, Cecil Parker ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Satire, Ealing Comedies, Film adaptation

The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Cecil Parker, and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. It followed a common Ealing Studios theme of the "common man" against the Establishment. In this instance the hero falls foul of both trade unions and the wealthy mill owners who attempt to suppress his invention. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, and Alexander Mackendrick. Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and... MORE

The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Cecil Parker, and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. It followed a common Ealing Studios theme of the "common man" against the Establishment. In this instance the hero falls foul of both trade unions and the wealthy mill owners who attempt to suppress his invention. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, and Alexander Mackendrick. Sidney Stratton, a brilliant young research chemist and former Cambridge scholarship recipient, has been dismissed from jobs at several textile mills in the north of England because of his demands for expensive facilities and his obsession to invent an everlasting fibre. Whilst working as a labourer at the Birnley mill, he accidentally becomes an unpaid researcher and invents an incredibly strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out. From this fabric, a suit is made—which is brilliant white because it cannot absorb dye, and slightly luminous because it includes radioactive elements. Stratton is lauded as a genius until both management and the trade LESS