The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 0
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Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company, decides to reward himself by stealing one million pounds worth of gold. Calling on his old friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a manufacturer of paperweights and an amateur sculptor, and a couple of Cockney
Jun 26, 1951 Wide
Sep 10, 2002
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Cast
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Alec Guinness
Henry Holland -
Stanley Holloway
Alfred Pendelbury -
Sidney James
Lackery Wood -
Alfie Bass
Shorty Fisher -
Marjorie Fielding
Mrs. Chalk -
Edie Martin
Miss Evesham -
Ronald Adam
Turner -
John Salew
Parkin -
Arthur Hambling
Wallis -
Gibb McLaughlin
Godwin -
John Gregson
Farrow -
Clive Morton
Station Sergeant -
Frederick Piper
Cafe Owner -
Peter Bull
Joe the Gab -
Patric Doonan
Craggs -
Marie Burke
Senora Gallardo -
Audrey Hepburn
Chiquita -
Michael Trubshawe
Ambassador -
Patrick Barr
Inspector -
Jacques B. Brunius
Official -
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Cyril Chamberlain
Commander -
David Davies
City Policeman -
Eugene Deckers
Customs Official -
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Meredith Edwards
P.C. Williams -
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Christopher Hewett
Inspector Talbot -
Moultrie Kelsall
Detective Superintendan... -
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Andrea Malandrinos
Customs Official -
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Tony Quinn
Deputy Commander -
Sydney Tafler
Clayton -
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Paul Demel
Customs Official -
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Ann Heffernan
Kiosk Girl -
William Fox
Gregory
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (1) | DVD (10)
Charles Crichton's direction is subtle but inventive - check out the snaking, near-single-take opening in a Rio cabana - and the performances, writing and plotting are faultless.
Top CriticInventive, economic, masterly.
You are left wanting more rather than thinking less would have been better.
It's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers...
Both a joyous comedy and a tense thriller. Indeed, its climactic car-chase sequence is easily as dramatic as any of those found in today's summer blockbusters.
[A] superb and subtle crime-film spoof.
Alec Guinness shines in this hilarious British comedy.
Inflation may have dented the allure of its 1m bullion heist, but this 1951 Ealing comedy is still 24-carat gold.
Alec Guinness received a well deserved Oscar nomination for this hilarious British comedy
The real joy of the movie is less about the caper than these two invisible, workaday men discovering the thrills of attempting something extraordinary - even if it is felonious.
The Cockney wit is outrageously funny.
Fun, perfectly realized Ealing Studios outing
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Foreign Titles
- De l'or en barres (FR)
