Tag: Alec Guinness
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Something of a Discordant Essay
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Several days ago I caught David Lean’s Summertime on TMC. I had seen it in 1955 when a teenager and one scene, I dimly recall, I could not grasp, but now I do. Oh do I. But I am getting ahead of myself. The following morning at breakfast with my wife I…
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Tunes of Glory, Fifty Years later
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Having seen Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, featuring Alec Guinness and the impeccably dappered and incisive Dennis Price with the usual suspects of English black comedy of the Fifties — Peter Sellars, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, et al, Jane and I have become dazzled by the Guinness portrayals. In 1958…