The DVD of
Smiley's People arrived over the weekend, and we started watching it on Monday night. Eee, they don't make 'em like this any more. Guinness only appears after about half an hour and doesn't have much to say, but quietly steals the show.
I read Eliot's
The Cocktail Party yesterday: it's... an odd play, but when I checked the cast list it turned out that Guinness was in the original production. It helped to hear his voice saying the lines. I haven't read any of Eliot's plays before, tho' I'm fairly certain I saw the film version of
Murder in the Cathedral when I was a kid. The wondrous
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katlinel recently sent me the book of the film.
When I checked the Sky Digital box last night, I found we had three Alec Guinness films stored on it for future viewing:
Great Expectations, Our Man in Havana, and the somewhat undersung
At Sea. Has anyone seen the new Coen Brothers version of
The Ladykillers with Tom Hanks in the Guinness role? Will going to see it just make me sad?
Yesterday the DVD of
A Murder of Quality arrived. It doesn't have Guinness in it (it
does have Denholm Elliot and Joss Ackland, tho'), but Le Carré wrote it and it's about George Smiley, so that's the connection there.
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