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    The Lavender Hill Mob

    1951 · Comedy · 1h 18m

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  1. The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 British comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district in London SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station .

  2. The Lavender Hill Mob: Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

    • (16K)
    • Comedy, Crime
    • Charles Crichton
    • 1951-10-15
  3. May 15, 2024 · The Lavender Hill Mob, which was made in 1951, is a film of endless charm and joy. It is a caper, which is (in my opinion) the best genre. And it was made by Ealing Studios, an English production company that was formally established in 1929, though on a site that had been home to different filmmaking companies since 1902.

    • Olivia Rutigliano
  4. And while the caper-gone-wrong comedy genre has been done to death in recent decades, The Lavender Hill Mob avoids most of what became the clichés of the genre. In fact, up to a point things actually go quite a bit more smoothly than the characters fear they are going, and more than once the perpetrators almost give themselves away because ...

  5. Mar 15, 2024 · This is a review for the 4K, DVD, Blu-ray restoration of 1950s British comedy crime caper “The Lavender Hill Mob“. Re-released in cinemas from 29th March and on home entertainment from April 22nd Re-released in cinemas from 29th March and on home entertainment from April 22nd

  6. Sep 28, 2019 · What a sweet comedy. Alec Guinness plays a self-effacing clerk, Henry Holland, who oversees the manufacturing of gold ingots for a London bank. Fastidious to a fault, unambitious, he seems destined to remain in his underpaid position. We see him coming home at night to the boardinghouse where he rents a room, reading crime stories to an elderly ...

  7. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Directed by Charles Crichton / Michael Balcon Genres - Drama , Crime | Sub-Genres - Caper , Crime Comedy , Satire | Release Date - Jun 15, 1951 (USA - Unknown), Oct 15, 1951 (USA) | Run Time - 77 min. | Countries - United Kingdom | MPAA Rating - NR

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