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The Man in the White Suit
Why this pick
Another sharply constructed Ealing comedy, with Alec Guinness’s politely determined outsider colliding with institutions that cannot accommodate his ingenious disruption.
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MOVIE1951 1h 18m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is dining with a fellow Briton in a posh restaurant in Rio de Janeiro where he is well known. He relates a story explaining his presence in Rio. It seems he was a seemingly unambitious London bank clerk in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He had a reputation for fussing over details and suspecting all cars he observed following the bullion van, but all in all appeared to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security. In fact, he had hatched the "perfect" plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. The one thing stopping him had been that selling the gold on the black market in Britain was too risky, and he was at a loss as to how to smuggle it abroad.
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