Alec Guinness
21) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground ...
23) The ladykillers
Language
English
Description
After five criminals rent a room from an old lady on the pretense of being classical musicians, she discovers their plans to rob a bank, and they must find a way to deal with her meddling in their business.
Series
Star wars volume IV
Language
English
Description
A rebel ship is being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, with his new allies, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, attempt to rescue rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.
26) Alec Guiness
Series
Language
English
Description
'Kind Hearts and Coronets' : Set in the Edwardian era, the impecunious heir of a titled family sets out to eliminate eight members of the D'Ascoygne family who stand between him and the family fortune. All roles are played by Sir Alec Guiness. (c1949 : 102 min.).
'The Man in the White Suit' : A satirical comedy in which Sir Alec Guiness plays a scientist who produces a fabric that will never wear out. However, dismayed garment manufacturers set out...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Collection includes : Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999) (PG) ; Star Wars - Episode II Attack Of The Clones (2002) (PG) ; and Star Wars - Episode III Revenge Of The Sith (2005) (PG-13) ; Star Wars - A New Hope (1977) ; Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ; and Star Wars - Return Of The Jedi (1983).
28) Doctor Zhivago
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
31) A foreign field
Language
English
Description
Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day.
Language
English
Description
Two Welsh mining brothers win tickets to a rugby match in London pitting England against Wales. Overzealous in their first trip to London, the brothers become separated from their group and then each other, and a newpaper gardening correspondent is given the task of locating the brothers for a human interest story.
Series
Star wars volume VI
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2-D2 and C3-PO to try and free him. Princess Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels.
Series
Language
English
Description
A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British comedies. Alec Guinness, as a scientist, invents a fabric that will never wear out. Threatened with unemployment, the unions and a dismayed garment tycoon plot to destroy his miracle formula.
Series
Language
English
Description
The captain of the Golden Fleece is able to divide his life between his home-loving wife, Maud, in Gibraltar and a wild romantic temptress, Nita in Kalik. The women turn the tables on him and he concludes that his heaven on earth was after all, only a fool's paradise.
Series
Language
English
Description
Sir Alec Guinness is Henry St. James, captain of an international ferry boat who has discovered the secret to the perfect double life: in Gibraltar he has a British housewife, while in Tangier his second wife is a hotblooded Spanish vixen. When the Captain becomes careless with anniversary gifts, he must see if he can not only outwit two betrayed wives, but survive a very serious firing squad.
Series
Criterion collection volume 154
Language
English
Description
Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.