The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, d. #CharlesCrichton)
Comedy about a bank clerk who decides to pull off a heist
Stars
#AlecGuiness
#SidJames
#AlfieBass
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, d. #CharlesCrichton)
Comedy about a bank clerk who decides to pull off a heist
Stars
#AlecGuiness
#SidJames
#AlfieBass
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Ironic that a #film promoting #InternationalUnderstanding has #AlecGuiness playing a Japanese man. But setting that aside this is a good film garnering #RosilandRussell a #GoldenGlobenomination. With great performances by #characteractors #RayDanton + #MaeQuestal. Directed by #MervynLeRoy
#AMajorityofOne (1961) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055124/
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#CharlesSturridge #film adaptation of #EvelynWaugh starring #KristenScottThomas + #JamesWilby, w/ #RupertGraves, #JudiDench, #AngelicaHuston, and #AlecGuiness.
#AHandfulofDust (1988) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095274/
“I needed a face as commonplace, as impossible to remember as the true face of the immortal Alec Guinness.” —Robert Heinlein, Double Star 1956
That’s a young Sir Alec Guinness reference. Long before Star Wars, before Doctor Zhivago, Fall of the Roman Empire, or Lawrence of Arabia. Just a year before Bridge on the River Kwai.
The Ladykillers is the only thing I recognize from his pre-56 credits.
But I’m sure he was already leaving an impression.
21 of #500moviecocktails published. 479 to go:
"George Smiley's Moscow Mule".
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George Smiley’s Moscow Mule John le Carré’s George Smiley is not much of a drinker, and when he does indulge, it most often will be a good glass of wine or single malt, or if pressured by courtesy to some guest, a sherry. Perhaps his long assignments in Germany left him with a taste for beer and the odd schnapps, but that too is unconfirmed. The Moscow Mule, a cocktail in its own right, is sometimes associated with Smiley [1] by way of a play on words, since in ”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (if you have not seen it, try the brilliant 1979 BBC miniseries starring Alec Guiness, not the disappointing 2011 remake), he is attempting to uncover a Russian mole within the Circus, the British Secret Service, someone passing documents to the class enemy, hence a “mule”. 1/2 ounce lime juice 2 ounces vodka 4 to 6 ounces ginger beer (NOT ginger ale please) thin cucumber slice, for garnish Squeeze the lime juice into a Collins glass (a copper Moscow Mule mug would be ideal, but not easy to come by...