TY - ADVS AU - Mackendrick,Alexander AU - Macdougall,Roger AU - Dighton,John AU - Frankel,Benjamin AU - Greenwood,Joan AU - Parker,Cecil AU - Guinness,Alec ED - Ealing Studios. TI - The man in the white suit SN - 0782003419 PY - 1994/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Republic Pictures Corporation KW - Comedy films KW - Feature films N1 - VHS format; "The British Sterling Collection"--cover; Video release of the 1951 motion picture; Director, Alexander Mackendrick; producer, Michael Balcon; writers, Roger Macdougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick; music, Benjamin Frankel; cinematography, Douglas Slocombe; editing Bernard Gribble; Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker N2 - A bubbly satire, acclaimed as one of the funniest and cleverest of British comedies. Alec Guinness, as a scientist, invents a fabric that will never wear out. Threatened with unemployment, the unions and a dismayed garment tycoon plot to destroy his miracle formula ER -