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Top Foreign Films | 1952
Best Writing Screenplay | 1953 | Roger
Alec Guinness performed the stunt of climbing down the side of the mansion. He was convinced by a technician that the piano wire holding him up would not break, since only piano wire with kinks in it would be prone to breaking. As he got to about four feet from the ground, the wire did in fact break.
The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were created by uncredited sound editor Mary Habberfield, and produced for the soundtrack with a tuba and a bassoon.
The sounds of Stratton's experiment (described on the record label as "guggle glub guggle") were set to music by Jack Parnell and released on Parlophone R 3435 as "The White Suit Samba" with words by T.E.B. Clarke.
The strange noise made by the laboratory apparatus was also used as a sound effect for the sportscar (the "Bellini") in a later film: School for Scoundrels (1960)
The film was based loosely on a play by Roger MacDougall which had never been produced on stage at the time the film was made. MacDougall was very dissatisfied with it and showed it to his cousin, the film director Alexander Mackendrick; the latter suggested that it might work better as a film, also recommending a great many changes to the story and leading characters. The two men collaborated on the film, also bringing in a third writer who also made several changes. After the film's considerable success, MacDougall's original was staged (not in London), but without success.
"Sir John Kierlaw: Now. Some fool has invented an indestructible cloth. Where is he? How much does he want?"
"Mrs. Watson, Sidney's landlady: Why can't you scientists leave things alone? What about my bit of washing when there's no washing to do?"
