Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alec Guinness
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Anthony Mann, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness
Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Read More »
The Man in the White Suit (1951) Alexander Mackendrick, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. Read More »
Cromwell (1970) Ken Hughes, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. Read More »
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean, William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
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 »
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 »