It’s a solid film but really it’s in the archives mainly because it’s a tremendous showcase for Alec Guinness- he plays a very large character here- chewing scenes– nails the Scottish accent- a drinking blue-collar whiskey drinker. He’s up against Mills who plays an upper-class disciplinarian intellectual type who drinks lemonade
Guinness was a chameleon actor- much like Paul Muni and others, like PSH who would come after- Guinness couldn’t be more different here than his character in river kwai
Intelligent writing and dialogue- great scene with Guinness and Kay Walsh
Plays on your sympathies back and forth with Guinness and Mills characters
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