Movies starring Alec Guinness
| Biography: While working in advertising, he studied at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, debuting on stage in 1934 and played classic theatre with the Old Vic from 1936. In 1941 he entered the Royal navy as a seaman and was commissioned the next year. Beyond an extra part in "The Evensong (1934)", his film career began after World War II with his portrayal of Herbert Pocket in "Great Expectations (1946 ... show all |
A Handful of Dust
We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his enormous estate with their young son. Tony's not much for parties, and Brenda joins...
The Fall of the Roman ...
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable...
The Ladykillers
A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members...
Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Doctor Zhivago
A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between...
Passage to India, A
Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiance, the British magistrate posted in a small town, her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. Wishing that some of the country and to meet everyday Indians...
Lawrence of Arabia
T. AND. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during the World war One. Unlucky person with his current maps of coloring of allocation, he is captivated when they offer him a work as an observer in what it is now...
Star Wars: Episode V -...
By escaping mediocre Galactic Empire, the rebels leave their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Solo Grunt and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 run away in the Hawk of harmed Millennium, but are later captured by lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker, meanwhile,...
Bridge on the River Kw...
The movie treats with the situation of British war prisoners during the Second world war that they are arranged to construct a bridge to accommodate the railroad of Burma - Siam. His instinct must sabotage the bridge, but, under the control of Colonel...
Mute Witness
Billy Hughes, a dumb makeup artist, in a slasher film works in Moscow becomes shoots, it is closed in the studio after hours. While there she testifies a crude murder, and at that time first arrest escape, then must be reserved to be killed before persuasive...
Star Wars: Episode VI ...
The empire is more than more or less by the construction of a new death star - nearly twice as largely, but more than twice as strongly. If completes, it will spell certain destiny for hatches Skywalker and the rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime...
Star Wars: Episode IV ...
In a few distant galaxy eras before the creation of the mythical planet known as Land, the vast civilizations developed, and government to galaxy is a created interstellar Empire of the ruins of an Old republic that dominated for generations. It is a...
