The Lavender Hill Mob
Summary:
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... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Alec Guinness - (Henry Holland)
Stanley Holloway - (Alfred Pendelbury)
Sidney James - (Lackery Wood)
Alfie Bass - (Shorty Fisher)
Marjorie Fielding - (Mrs. Chalk)
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Review:
The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers can almost serve as companion pieces to each other. Both are hilarious British caper comedies of the 1950s, but both also feature astonishingly different central performances from Alec Guinness. While in The Ladykillers Guinness is a fiendish crook whose criminality is evident from his fir... Continue >>
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