A typically rambunctious Ealing affair with a serious satirical edge, and features excellent turns from Joan Greenwood...

That Stratton proves so unable to resist his hubris surely provides the film with a cautionary subtext, but this is beautifully complicated by an ending that denies the possibility of rehabilitation.

…Alexander Mackendrick’s pertinent, strident, still powerful film about the manufacturing malaise built-into the capitalist status quo…aThe Man in the White Suit is a timeless, spiky satire with deadly serious intent….

The way the story unfolds feels even more culturally relevant to the times we are living in now than when the film was made in 1951.