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Mar 26, 2024 · Directed by Charles Crichton, from a screenplay by TEB Clarke, The Lavender Hill Mob stars Alec Guiness as the shy, retiring bank clerk Henry Holland. Twenty years of service, combined with the complete inconsequentiality his existence and endeavours holds for his employers, has seen Holland daydream about the perfect crime.
6 days ago · During a rainy night, Johnny Damico buys an expensive ring to propose his girlfriend Mary Kiernan to marry him. When he leaves the pawnshop, he hears a gunshot and sees two men, one standing and the other lying on the street. The man gives his badge to Damico e identifies himself as police detective. Damico gives attention to the man on the street but he is dead. When Damico calls his chief Lt ...
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Mar 24, 2024 · THE LAVENDER HILL MOB – clocking in at around 81 minutes – comes from the legendary slate of Rank Film Distributors and Ealing Studios during the post-war boom in film production when the likes of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and GENEVIEVE came into being. Its’ enduring quality as one of the greatest ever British films is backed up by its’ box ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Who He Plays: James (Jimmy) Conway, an Irish Brooklyn native with ties to the mob Premise: Like many of De Niro’s movies, Goodfellas goes the gangster route, and this one dramatizes real events spanning from the ‘50s to the ‘80s.The Brooklyn-based movie centers on Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) embroiling himself in the crime world of Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), Jimmy Conway (De Niro), and ...
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Apr 10, 2024 · It took Broderick Crawford almost twenty years to become a star, with his Oscar-winning performance in ALL THE KING’S MEN (Robert Rossen, 1949). He then had a smash hit as the rich brute trying to corrupt Washington into doing his bidding in BORN YESTERDAY opposite William Holden and Judy Holliday (Cukor, 1950). THE MOB (Robert…
Apr 10, 2024 · T. E. B.Clarke (screenplay), Charles Crichton (director) The Lavender Hill Mob / 1951 . The Lavender Hill Mob is one of the best of the British Ealing Studios comedies. For over 20 years, Holland (the incomparable Alec Guinness) has overseen the monthly shipments of British gold ingots as they make their way from the foundry to the bank.
4 days ago · Fascinating facts and interesting stories about organized crime: gangs, gangsters, mobsters, the mafia, and other criminals & crime syndicates all over the world. Over 19K filmgoers have voted on the 90+ Best Mafia Movies Of All Time. Current Top 3: Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather.
