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The Man In The White Suit 85 minutes, UK (1951), U
(4.5)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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Average user rating (4.8 / 5 votes)

Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood star in this darkly comic fable about a scientist who invents a dirt-repelling indestructible fibre, to the consternation of self-serving capitalists, unionists - and washerwomen everywhere

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The Man In The White Suit: "They were always trying to get me killed," Alec Guinness once wrote of The Man In the White Suit's technicians. "They thought actors got in the way of things." He went on to describe how he'd been given a wire rope to climb down and, assured it was safe, narrowly avoided serious injury when it suddenly snapped mid-descent...
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