Monday, August 22, 2011

Follow-up to Monday movie

This has nothing to do with Stagecoach, but in the context of actors and acting, Mark Steyn has written an interesting piece on the late Sir Alec Guinness.

4 comments:

richard mcenroe said...

I knew the miniseries of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was going to be good the minute I watched Guiness's club scene in the first episode. His host is prattling on condescendingly to this anonymous little civil servant George Smiley who is nodding along obsequiously... and then his host mentions his estranged wife and without moving a muscle Guinness is the scariest old bastard you ever laid eyes on.

Paco said...

I remember the very scene! Guinness could work wonders with just a look.

Minicapt said...

Also: http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4382/28/

Cheers

bruce said...

Just read Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (which has great insight into 19th century British politics).

Saw online that Guinness was a Trollope fan, 'who never travelled without a Trollope novel'. For me, this gives insight to the mind behind that inscrutable face.