The most political of Ealing’s comedies, Alexander Mackendrick’s sardonic satire pits a brilliant but naive scientist (Alec Guinness) against all the vested interests of British industry, bosses and workers alike.
He’s first dismissed as a madman, then hailed as a genius - when his indestructible cloth threatens the textile industry with ruin he’s hunted through the streets of a northern mill town by a lynch-mob.
Mackendrick slyly skewers every political stance along the spectrum from Left to Right.
A crisp restoration, with generous extras.
