Rent The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
3.9 of 5 from 193 ratings
1h 17min
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- Synopsis:
- Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy, retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle them into France. Soon after, they gain the services of professional criminals Lackery (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass) and the four plot what they believe will be the perfect crime - which turns out to be anything but!
- Actors:
- Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding, Edie Martin, John Salew, Ronald Adam, Arthur Hambling, Gibb McLaughlin, John Gregson, Clive Morton, Sydney Tafler, Marie Burke, Audrey Hepburn, William Fox, Michael Trubshawe, Ann Heffernan, Jacques B. Brunius, Eugene Deckers
- Directors:
- Charles Crichton
- Producers:
- Michael Balcon
- Writers:
- T.E.B. Clarke
- Others:
- T. E. B. Clarke
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- 1949: That Ealing Feeling, Acting Up: British Actors at the Oscars, Award Winners, Films to Watch If You Like..., Films to Watch if You Like: Get Carter, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Audrey Hepburn, Getting to Know: Sidney James, Heist Movies: A 20-Year Stretch, inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Charles Crichton, Top 100 BFI Films, Top Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 01/08/2011
- Run Time:
- 81 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- Bonus:
- Introduction to Martin Scorsese
- Excerpt from BECTU history project – Interview with Charles Crichton
- Good afternoon: Mavis interviews T.E.B. Blarke
- Behind the scenes stills gallery
- Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/04/2024
- Run Time:
- 81 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- New - The Lavender Hill Mob: Analysis by Benedict Morrison
- New - London Comedy Film Festival Q&A with Paul Merton
- Introduction by Martin Scorsese
- Those British Faces: Stanley Holloway
- Extract from BEHP Audio Interview with Charles Crichton
- Good Afternoon: Mavis Interviews T.E.B. Clarke
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Jeremy Arnold
- Original Trailer
- Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery
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Reviews (4) of The Lavender Hill Mob
Classic Ealing Comedy - The Lavender Hill Mob review by GI
One of the great Ealing Studio comedies and a thoroughly delightful heist film where a meek bank employee (Alec Guinness) and a hapless and eccentric souvenir maker (Stanley Holloway) dream up a plan to steal £1million in gold bullion and smuggle it out of the country as small Eiffel Tower souvenirs. They recruit two professional criminals (Sid James & Alfie Bass) to help them but the plans go awry when some of the souvenirs are accidentally sold to some schoolgirls and they have to get them back before the police get ahold of them. It's quintessentially British, very funny, and wonderfully scripted. An absolutely lovely film and a must see for all film enthusiasts and you can have fun spotting cameos by Audrey Hepburn and Robert Shaw (blink and you'll miss them!)
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Gentle - The Lavender Hill Mob review by JD
The pace is slow, the plot simple, the photography absolutely stunning. Good black and white such as this give a texture to the picture which I find better than any high definition colour. Alec G is of course great, Sid James plays a very straight character, pre slap stick. It is about a burglary but it is more than the plot and certainly more than the action which by modern standards is poor. A great film for a rainy Saturday.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Clean old fashioned humour - The Lavender Hill Mob review by JJ
This was my first introduction to The Ealing Comedies and it was a refreshing, simple romp with some great acting from a young Alec Guinness and rotund Stanley Holloway.
Such straightforward stuff to raise the spirits post WW 2 and now in the thick of a 2020 pandemic.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.