they be always try to get me kill and alec guinness once write of the man in the white suit technician . they think actor get in the way of thing . he go on to describe how he would be give a wire rope to climb down and and assure it be safe and narrowly avoid serious injury when it suddenly snap mid descent . people get in the way of thing might be a maxim tailor make for white suit inventor sidney stratton ( fittingly play blank slate fashion by alec guinness ) in alexander mackendrick definitive ealing film of 1951. certainly and he care only about his work and it realisation and sod the consequence . and similarly and with the exception of a couple of peripheral character and there almost nobody to root for in this chilly satire on capital and labour . tell in flashback and the film concern stratton invention of a dirt resistant and everlasting fibre ( fashion into the white suit of the title ) and and subsequent attempt by the clothing industry and it union to suppress it . while the industry fear the bottom will drop out of the market and the shop floor steward worry about find themselves out of a job . abduction and bribery attempt follow and with both money and an industry chief daughter on offer ( daphne and the delectable and 4 pack a day voice joan greenwood ) and to the tragus comic end . what to become of my bit of wash when there no washing to do . bemoan stratton landlady near the close . a notion stratton hadn not even consider and have disregard again by the movie ambiguous coda . a superior and if decidedly downbeat comedy and expertly perform and pretty much answer the oft raise question of whatever happen to the everlasting light bulb and the car that run on water .