Directed by David Lean • 1948 • United Kingdom
Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean's OLIVER TWIST with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin, his controversial performance fully restored in Criterion's digital transfer.
Directed by Robert Hamer • 1949 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson
Director Robert Hamer’s fiendishly funny KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS stands as one of Ealing Studios’ greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly hilarious black comedies ever made. Dennis P...
Directed by Henry Cass • 1950 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell
Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird (Alec Guinness) decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his...
Directed by Charles Crichton • 1951 • United Kingdom
Starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
Alec Guinness is a prim and respectable bank clerk who organizes a gang to steal gold bullion and smuggle it out of the country as Eiffel Tower souvenir paperweights. Delightful acting,...
