The Lavender Hill Mob
Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway are gold smugglers in this crime comedy from Oscar-nominated director Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda).
A retiring bank clerk (Guinness) who oversees the shipment of bullion befriends his eccentric souvenir-making neighbour and they together plot to smuggle the bank's bullion out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
- Director:
- Charles Crichton ('A Fish Called Wanda', 'Dead of Night', 'The Stranger in Between')
- Writer:
- T.E.B. Clarke
- Cast:
- Alec GuinnessStanley HollowayAlfie BassSidney JamesMarjorie FieldingEdie MartinJohn SalewRonald Adam
Reviews & comments
Time Out
pressCharles 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.
Daily Telegraph
pressBoth 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.
The Guardian
pressIt's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers...
Time Out
pressCharles 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.
Daily Telegraph
pressBoth 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.
The Guardian
pressIt's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers...
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