Alec Guinness’s Best Movies
In 1946, aged 32, Alec Guinness starred as Herbert Pocket in the David Lean adaptation of the Charles Dickens’s classic GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Guinness said: “The stage was my prime interest. I had no ambition to be a film actor, and a screen career seemed unlikely to come my way. I’d done a stage adaption of Great Expectations before the war and this had been seen by David Lean and Ronald Neame. I went into the navy during the war, and when I came out they were preparing their film. They remembered my performance on the stage and asked me if I’d go into their film as Herbert Pocket. I’d thought of film as a much greater mystery than the theatre and I felt a need to begin in films with a character I knew something about.”
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