Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James as gold thieves. Holland escapes to Rio de Janeiro with the six gold towers, worth "£25,000, enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed." At that moment Pendlebury snatches it and he and Holland make their escape in a police car. The plot follows a meek bank clerk (Alec Guinness) who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor (Stanley Holloway) to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. 1951. Title: If just one of those towers is found to be gold then the game is up. 5 out of 5 stars. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Lavender Hill Mob. It’s another Brit import that previously appeared on DVD with less-than-perfect audio. They recruit two petty crooks, Lackery Wood (Sidney James) and Shorty Fisher (Alfie Bass), to help them carry out the robbery. Directed by Charles Crichton. While many consider The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) to be one of the best of the Guinness/Ealing comedies, I'm partial to one of their later films, The Ladykillers (1955), which was recently remade by the Coen brothers and featured Tom Hanks (I've haven't seen it yet, but I heard not so good things about it). The Lavender Hill Mob. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. 5 out of 5 stars. View production, box office, & company info. He had a reputation for fussing over details and suspecting all cars he observed following the bullion van, but all in all appeared to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security. Clarke. 5 out of 5 stars. Directed by Dean Parisot. 11 talking about this. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) August 6, 2020 August 6, 2020 / swampflix After falling in love with two other major works in the Alec Guinness canon of post-War comedies for Ealing Studios, I was not at all prepared for the wholesome, crowd-pleasing sentiments of The Lavender Hill Mob . The Lavender Hill Mob are a bunch of London musicians who get together to record fun records for their own label Mob Records. When Holloway realises they can pull it off, his face is hidden in the shadows as he slowly tells Guinness, 'Thank God Holland, we are both honest men' - a line which I think summarises the entire movie.The reason this movie is so amusing even today is that it is very tightly scripted (Tibby Clark won an Oscar for his effort) & brilliantly realised by the ensemble cast. The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. The movie was directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Ealing Studios, the English motion-picture studio that is internationally remembered for a series of witty comedies that reflected the social conditions of post- World War II Britain. The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 film about a meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion who joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.. A cranky film star loses own child because of her levity. HOLLAND cashes a cheque and the money is brought to his table by a waiter, where HOLLAND sits with a man. Guinness was nominated for the award of Best Actor in a Leading Role. Lavender Hill Mob, The Date: 1951 Director: Charles Crichton Production Company: Ealing Studios Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass Location(s): London, Middlesex, Paris (France) Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. An enduring classic from director Charles Crichton, THE LAVENDER HILL MOB features an early screen appearance from Audrey Hepburn and was included on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Best British Films of the 20th Century. Recommended. Pendlebury and Holland therefore track down the schoolgirls and, in exchange for a similar tower and ten shillings apiece, recover most of the loot. Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. The Lavender Hill Mob are a bunch of London musicians who get together to record fun records for their own label Mob Records. But by then they have given us enough joy & adventure for us to forgive their one tragic slip.This is definitely one of the best comedies Ealing studios made in the '50s (my other favourite is the vastly underrated 'Hue & Cry' where Alistair Sim gives a typical quirky performance & the tipsy 'Whiskey Galore'). In this movie they decide they are familiar enough to ask each other their first names only after they have robbed a bank together! A while later he got the form back from the state, along with a letter informing him that the Lavender Hill Mob was a partnership and could not be paid until it obtained an Employer Identification Number or EIN from (ominous music starts here)...the Internal Revenue Service. Faithfully, for twenty years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. 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