Alec Guinness Trailers
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Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. He is most well known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also played Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia and George Smiley in the TV adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Most Popular Alec Guinness Trailers
Total trailers found: 82
25 May 1977
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire.
18 December 2019
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues.
20 May 1980
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda.
15 December 2015
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
25 May 1983
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station.
11 December 1962
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
18 August 2004
The Skywalker family is at the heart of the Star Wars saga. Now hear the inside story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the characters who witnessed it all: the famous droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2.
04 April 1996
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
08 June 1954
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
18 February 1983
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
18 September 2004
A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.
22 December 1965
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
19 April 1955
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror.
01 January 1967
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season".
16 September 2006
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
26 December 1946
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
10 May 2007
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
01 January 1958
A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.
11 October 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.
16 September 1977
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
01 January 1985
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
06 August 1959
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
01 August 1980
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
28 June 1948
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice.
23 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
08 December 1955
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
23 June 1976
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
01 January 1985
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor.
15 December 2015
Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout both cinematic trilogies and into Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
16 July 1970
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World.
14 December 1984
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
24 March 1964
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
18 October 1992
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime.
17 November 1978
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
01 January 1984
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
07 August 1951
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out.
15 September 1995
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film.
10 November 1966
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
01 November 2012
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the video collects the dozens of appearances that the character of Sigmund Freud has made on small and big screens.
31 December 1978
A documentary about the film roles of British actor Alec Guinness. Volume 8 in a series produced by Janus Films.
13 October 1965
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended.
01 January 1955
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
31 October 1967
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
25 February 1952
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so.
08 June 1987
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
01 December 1980
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father.
28 June 1951
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
08 September 1970
The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
03 March 1972
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures.
10 September 1993
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy.
01 February 1976
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
11 December 1987
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London.
01 March 1966
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris.
15 November 1991
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
26 April 1956
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace.
27 January 1960
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly.
15 April 1962
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty.
24 September 1974
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
05 November 1970
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
