An excellent look into the life and career of to me the greatest of actors. As one of the contributors rightly says - I'm paraphrasing - with Guinness he just becomes the person he is playing whereas others, I think Olivier is mentioned, it just seems so procedural. This is an accomplished piece of work as it pulls no punches in highlighting his insecurities around Olivier, Richardson and Olivier and indeed his occasional cruelty. It does though highlight his acting genius and shares many clips from his great screen performances.
Two of the best anecdotes covered how Olivier seemed to detest Guinness and in fact he comes over as rather a git, even jealous, in his dealings with Guinness. The other was the notoriety that Guinness got in being wildly miscast as an Indian in 'A Passage to India'. Again it really highlighted what a nasty piece of work director Lean was who obviously wanted a star and couldn't be bothered to find an Indian actor to play the part. Famous film critic Barry Norman does rather nicely put Lean on the spot.
Please watch, a great documentary about a great actor.
