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The Man in the White Suit

Duration:

85 min

Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Alexander Mackendrick

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: Brimsdown Station, Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $3,874 (USA) (18 November 2012)

Gross: $8,265 (USA) (27 January 2013)

Cast

Actor

Character

Ernest Thesiger

Alec Guinness

Sidney Stratton

Joan Greenwood

Daphne Birnley

Cecil Parker

Alan Birnley

Michael Gough

Michael Corland

Howard Marion-Crawford

Cranford (as Howard Marion Crawford)

Henry Mollison

Hoskins

Vida Hope

Bertha

Patric Doonan

Frank

Duncan Lamont

Harry

Harold Goodwin

Wilkins

Colin Gordon

Hill

Joan Harben

Miss Johnson

Arthur Howard

Roberts

Roddy Hughes

Green

Stuart Latham

Harrison

Miles Malleson

The Tailor

Edie Martin

Mrs. Watson

Mandy Miller

Gladdie

Charlotte Mitchell

Mill Girl

Olaf Olsen

Knudsen

Desmond Roberts

Mannering

Ewan Roberts

Fotheringay

John Rudling

Wilson

Charles Saynor

Pete

Russell Waters

Davidson

Brian Worth

King

George Benson

The Lodger

Frank Atkinson

The Baker

Charles Cullum

1st Company Director

F.B.J. Sharp

2nd Company Director (as F. B. J. Sharp)

Scott Harold

Express Reporter

Jack Howarth

Receptionist At Corland Mill

Jack McNaughton

Taxi Driver

Judith Furse

Nurse Gamage

Billy Russell

Nightwatchman

David Boyd

Office Boy (uncredited)

Alan Haines

Reporter (uncredited)

Arthur Mullard

(uncredited)

Carol Wolveridge

Schoolgirl in Front of Class (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Alec Guinness performed the stunt of climbing down the side of the mansion. He was convinced by a technician that the piano wire holding him up would not break, since only piano wire with kinks in it would be prone to breaking. As he got to about four feet from the ground, the wire did in fact break.

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The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were created by uncredited sound editor Mary Habberfield and produced for the sound track by a tuba and a bassoon.

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The sounds of Stratton's experiment (described on the record label as "guggle glub guggle") were set to music by Jack Parnell and released on Parlophone R 3435 as "The White Suit Samba" with words by T.E.B. Clarke.

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Goofs

When Mr. Harrison is called by a woman because he is wanted by Mr. Corland, he is blowing into a glass vial on a side counter which was not there in the previous shot.

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When Hill disturbs Michael Corland at the table, he holds a piece of paper. The paper swaps hands between shots.

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At the end of the film,another man in a white suit is mistaken for Stratton. As he is chased down a back-lit alley, you can clearly see the cord that pulls his hat off.

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Quotes

Sidney Stratton: Oh, it's a better job.

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Sir John Kierlaw: Now. Some fool has invented an indestructible cloth. Where is he? How much does he want?

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Bertha, Birnley Mill worker: [describing Sidney] ... flotsam floating on the floodtide of profit.

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