Do you like Guinness?

[kentauros]

Alec, that is :D

The Man in the White Suit

10pm EST on TCM tonight

[Tom Kitten]

1. Yes to that

and do you remember the movie he was a German citizen with Robert Redford and Mike Connors where they were two American soldiers during WW2 hiding out in his house and he locks them up safe and sound and then the war ends but he decides to keep them them captive? I just remembered it off the top of my head, a good movie, but I can't recall the title (I know I can search IMDB for it but then there'd be no fun in posting)

[kentauros]

2. I don't know that one at all

but it sounds pretty funny! :D

According to Robert Osborn, Guinness was known for his humorous movies in the 1950s, like this one and The Ladykillers.

I'll have to look for the one you're describing. I was going to get the dvd to The Man in the White suit as it's such a classic Ealings Studios comedy, and if this other one is available I might have to get it too :)

Oh, David Carradine is on now as Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory.

[Tom Kitten]

3. I looked it up...it's "Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious" from 1965

it gets lukewarm reviews at IMDB but I long along learned to take people who post on the internets opinions with a little grain of salt! :D ...

"Man In the White Suit" looks pretty good...I've never heard of it although it might be something my sister is more into than I...She's really into the whole British post war "angry young man" scene as well as British comedy much than I so I will let her know about this.

[kentauros]

4. It's not really an "angry young man" type of movie

just a light-hearted British comedy :)

Have you ever seen "Our Man in Havana" ? Guinness plays a vacuum cleaner salesman taken in as a spy for the British and he makes these weird drawings and pawns them off to the British MI6 (or whatever it is in the 1960s) as enemy labratories. It's an odd film, and Ernie Kovacs plays a Cuban military CO. I think the year is 1958, so Havana is still the hotspot of tourism ;)

"Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious" sounds familiar. Maybe TCM has played it before...