The Hangman. — A difficult client can make things most distressing. Some of them tend to be very hysterical. So inconsiderate…
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In the years after World War II, there emerged from the Ealing Studios of England a series of comedies so dry and droll, so literate and cynical, that the phrase “Ealing comedy” described them and no others. Many starred Alec Guinness, then in his 30s, so anonymous in appearance that he was told by an early teacher, “you will never make an actor.” It was like that until the end of his days; once, while dressed as Hitler for a costume fitting, he stepped outside and failed to raise the eyebrow of a passing policeman. While the other great actors of his generation attracted crowds wherever they went, Guinness could, he reported, go to the cinema without ever being asked for his autograph. Roger Ebert