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 The Man in the White Suit (1951)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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A man invents a fabric that won't get dirty or wear out, but he seems to have made more enemies than friends in the process...
The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were produced for the sound track by a tuba and a bassoon.
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 The enduring mystique of the white suit. - By Inigo Thomas - Slate Magazine
A man in white is never innocent; no woman in white is necessarily innocent either, though the conventional idea is that she may be.
Like every suit, the white suit is a uniform, not of the office but of the street or the cafe.
Then there's the white suit of the Southern plantation owner (which I suspect was more myth than true), but white has always gone hand in hand symbolically with lording it, and with empire.
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 Scifilm -- Reviews, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951)
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT was written by Roger MacDougall, based on his play of the same title.
There is no fl and white or right and wrong here (though visually there certainly are many fl suits in contrast to Sidney's white one); nobody is truly evil and nobody is truly good, just people doing what people do.
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT is one of those rare movies that not only improves with repeated viewings but is as timely today as when it was released over 50 years ago.
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 Dark Observations From the Man In the White Suit
Naturally, he wore white last night, when he collected another status marker in his illustrious career -- the honor of giving the 35th annual Jefferson Lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
But the white suit seemed an effort to communicate something else: It is the mark of a man who has mucked about in the ugliest filth of humanity and come out, in the end, spotless.
These enemies are essentially the same ones that the powers at the NEH love to rail against -- Cole has become a self-parody when it comes to academics, artists he considers too abstract, and the stupidity of American youth -- so the choice of Wolfe to deliver the speech made a certain sense.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051100022_pf.html   (881 words)

  
 By The River: Man in a White Suit
I suppose many writers are attracted to these suits, especially if they like the books of Tom Wolfe or Mark Twain.
Both authors seem to wear or have worn white linen suits on most days of their lives, and certainly at public readings.
I really felt I needed to wear a white suit to be there, but I didn't own one then.
www.bytheriverblog.com /2006/08/man_in_a_white_suit.html   (533 words)

  
 man white suit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Alexander Mackendrick directed this satire of British industry, The Man in the White Suit appeared in August 1951, two months after The Lavender Hill Mob had its premiere.
At the film's climax our hero is pursued through the streets in his dazzling white suit by workers and employers alike.
Then, as they move in for the kill, his suit starts to disintegrate - the miracle yarn has an unexpected flaw - and as it falls to pieces he is left standing alone in his underwear.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Man in the White Suit
The resulting luminous white trousers and jacket not only glow even in the dingy daylight, they give Stratton the air of an ultramodern White Knight tilting at one mission in life: to free mankind from washtime drudgery and the indignities of tattered clothing.
Anchor Bay's DVD release of The Man in the White Suit, part of the Alec Guinness Collection, rightfully honors both Guinness and the Ealing comedies from the '40s and '50s.
Blacks are true fl, and the pristine White Suit radiates with the chastity of an angelic raiment.
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The Man in the White Suit is a razor sharp satire of the limited vision and cutthroat tactics of the business world founded, not on innovation, but on conservatism.
Alongside Guinness, the film's other star was the luminous white suit fashioned from Sidney's miracle fabric, which he wears in the film's second half.
Fourteen of the suits were crafted from luminously treated rayon, and a tissue paper version was created for the final disintegration scene.
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 Film/Classics: The Man in the White Suit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"The Man in the White Suit" is both a hilarious comedy and a brilliant, political attack on capitalism.
Guinness's invention at first unleashes her father's ambitions for profits until his competitors convince him that it will quickly put them all out of business, a notion that soon also turns all of the inventor's friends in the labor unions against him as well.
At the film's end, he is pursued in a wild chase wearing his virtually incandescent suit in this fl-and-white film by both the mill owners and the workers and suddenly his suit disintegrates to the delight of his attackers and his surprise.
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 artdiamondblog.com: "Man in White Suit" Science Fiction, Now Nearly Science Fact
PART of what sold James Tirey on a change in attire was the coffee spilled on his legs during a rough flight.
To avoid such incidents, he bought a new pair of pants with an invisible, high-tech surface suited to the exigencies of business travel.
These pants look and feel like most others, but the ingenious finish on the fabric is different: it is made of tiny, nanosized particles that repel water, ketchup, honey, blood, vinaigrette and a thousand other potential indignities.
www.artdiamondblog.com /archives/2006/10/man_in_white_su.html   (303 words)

  
 DVD.net : The Man in the White Suit - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Man in the White Suit is an anti-capitalist parable about profiteering and victimisation.
The victim is Cambridge-educated inventor Sidney Stratton, whose quest is to invent a non-destructible, non-stainable synthetic textile - the prototype of which becomes the eponymous white suit.
A fluorescent white suit at that - all the better to see him by.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3048   (612 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | Archives | Avo Uvezian: The Man in the White Suit
He seems to be almost enjoying this particular flight, despite the handful of people in the back row with their heads in small white bags and the other two dozen passengers looking slightly queasy.
Not only did the young man quickly become known in the city for his talent on the keyboards, but his social graces were also greatly appreciated.
The marketing man for Absolut in the United States, Michel Roux, had become a friend of Uvezian's, and Roux emphasized that he should focus on the top end of the market.
www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,506,00.html   (3393 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Man In The White Suit [1951]: DVD: Alec Guinness,Joan Greenwood,Cecil Parker,Michael Gough,Ernest ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit he takes the studio's favourite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist.
Close to realising his vision, Stratton celebrates by having a suit made of the fabric, and because it repels dye it is a brilliant gleaming white.
In this much, "The Man in the White Suit" echoes the the battle to save a village railway in "The Titfield Thunderbolt", and the ordinary Londoners' stand against arrogant officialdom in "Passport to Pimlico".
www.amazon.co.uk /Man-White-Suit-Alec-Guinness/dp/B000260OY4   (1343 words)

  
 Man In The White Suit Movie Posters
Notes: Man in the White Suit' is perhaps, along with 'Kind Hearts and Coronets,' the pinnacle of the Ealing film.
About a man who invents a fabric that won't get dirty or wear out, but who seems to have made more enemies than friends in the process...Very well written, even better direction and uniformly spot-on performances make this one of the great British films of the 1950s.
We are also interested in buying individual Man In The White Suit movie posters or collections of movie posters so please contact us if you have anything for sale.
www.atthemovies.co.uk /posters/3936.html   (358 words)

  
 The Man in the White Suit [1951] @ EOFFTV
An uncharacteristically dark satire from Ealing, The Man in the White Suit is as subtle as it is scathing, with no easy moral closures.
Although very much a product of its time – the labour relations theme looks terribly dated now – the underlying themes of scientific progress creating more problems than it solves and of human self-interest over-riding all other concerns are timeless and universal enough to ensure the films longevity.
Very funny, beautifully acted – especially by Guinness – and shot through with a keen intelligence, The man in the White Suit is a dark gem in the Ealing crown.
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 Amazon.com: The Man in the White Suit: DVD: Alec Guinness,Joan Greenwood,Cecil Parker,Michael Gough,Ernest ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit (1952) he takes the studio's favorite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist.
In post-war Britain, Sidney Stratton is a young man with a passion for chemistry and an obsession with creating his "long molecule." With this he'll be able to create a fabric that is indestructible and will never need cleaning.
The Man in the White Suit focusses on the destructive aspects of all new inventions.
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 The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Birney agrees to finance his experiments but when Sidney succeeds and news of this non-perishable suit comes out, both the local plant bosses and workers alike try to silence the discovery, fearing an end to business.
This was one of the comedies produced by Britain’s legendary Ealing Studios, a company that came to prominence during World War II and flourished in particular in the years immediately following the War.
The film holds allegiance to the mad scientist films of the 1930s and 1940s, in particular their Gothic outlook that scientific discovery brings about social chaos and things are best left the way they are.
www.moria.co.nz /sf/whitesuit.htm   (759 words)

  
 Film Stills - The Man in the White Suit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Man in the White Suit – film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing – starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger and Miles Malleson all in and around Battersea.
We are always looking for more help with identifying the locations and would be grateful for any positive identifications, snippets or references you can offer.
Stills from "The Man in the White Suit", all in and around Battersea, SE London, the now demolished Morgan Crucible works and Church Road
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 Man in the white suit | InfoWorld | Column | 2002-01-04 | By Steve Gillmor
Spurred on by the beautiful daughter of a textile factory owner, Guinness attracts the support -- and then the enmity -- of both management and labor as the owners struggle to hold on to their profits and the workers their jobs.
At the end of the movie, the white suit disintegrates due to a flaw in the formula.
With a knowing "I see!" the man in the white suit walks away toward the future with a spring in his step.
www.infoworld.com /article/02/01/04/020107opcurve_1.html   (1692 words)

  
 The Man in the White Suit - Rotten Tomatoes
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Close to realizing his vision, Stratton celebrates by having a white suit made of the fabric (because it repels dye).
In a series of entertaining chase scenes and attempted double crosses, the impish yet determined Stratton (sporting his luminous suit) struggles to defend his hard-won discovery from the mob.
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 The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Bimley is exultant over the vast fortune that he will gather producing wonder garments and is especially taken with the demonstration suit made for Sidney.
In a twisted marriage the owners and the workers join together to combat this threat, with an innocent and naive Sidney in the middle.
A very entertaining comedy, The Man in the White Suit manages to pass some extremely perceptive comments on the worker-manager relationship under this sugar coating.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Man_White_Suit.html   (634 words)

  
 Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
News of the manufacture of the suit leaks out, causing consternation among the clothing manufacturers.
In a final chase he is cornered by both parties.
It is discovered that the fabric is not everlasting after all - it comes to pieces as they all tear at Stratton's white coat and trousers.
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