In Alexander Mackendrick’s terrific satire for Ealing Studios, Alec Guinness plays a mild-mannered scientist in a textile factory who invents a fabric that never wears out and never gets dirty, a capitalist’s nightmare that incurs the wrath of both management and labor. With Joan Greenwood, Michael Gough. (UK 1951) 85 min.
In Alexander Mackendrick’s terrific satire for Ealing Studios, Alec Guinness plays a mild-mannered scientist in a textile factory who invents a fabric that never wears out and never gets dirty, a capitalist’s nightmare that incurs the wrath of both management and labor. With Joan Greenwood, Michael Gough. (UK 1951) 85 min.
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