This movie deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alec Guinness
Hotel Paradiso (1966) Peter Glenville, Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. Read More »
Barnacle Bill (1957) Charles Frend, Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors…but is all too susceptible to seasickness. Read More »
The Scapegoat (1959) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
On a vacation in France from his nondescript job and life, John Barratt encounters a titled but impoverished French nobleman who looks exactly like him. Read More »
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965) Gottfried Reinhardt, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford
During World War II, two Americans are forced to bail out and parachute into a small German town. Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Ennio De Concini, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler’s final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. Read More »
The Mudlark (1950) Jean Negulesco, Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray, Drama
In 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria which he thinks so beautiful he risks his life to save it. Read More »
Twelfth Night (1970) John Sichel, Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Drama
In this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick Read More »
Little Dorrit (1987) Christine Edzard, Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Drama, Romance
Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Read More »
Tunes of Glory (1960) Ronald Neame, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Drama
Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Read More »
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Michael Anderson, George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Read More »
The Prisoner (1955) Peter Glenville, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Drama
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conquerer. Read More »
Oliver Twist (1948) David Lean, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Adventure, Crime, Drama
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Read More »
Malta Story (1953) Brian Desmond Hurst, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Drama, History, War
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. Read More »
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) Jack Gold, Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Drama, Family, Romance
Ceddie, Earl of Dorincourt’s only grandson and heir lives in America with his mother. Read More »