The Man in the White Suit

'The Man in the White Suit' is an English science-fiction satirical film from 1951 directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Alec Guinness.

The plot is focused on Sidney Stratton, a young chemical researcher who's repeatedly fired from his jobs at textile mill because his obsession to finally creating an everlasting fibre. While he's working at the Birnley Mill he invents an incredibly strong and bright fibre that repels the dirt and it never wears out. So he makes himself a brand new suit using that fibre. While he's focused on tell the world about his revolutionary invention, the management and the workers of the textile workshop realize that his invention can put the textile industry out of business so they start planning how to get the secret of his genuine fibre.