The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Movie Overview

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James as gold bullion thieves. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode district SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station. Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a timid bank clerk in London who has been in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He has developed a reputation for fussing over details and panicking about suspect cars following the bullion van. He appears to be a man dedicated to his job and security. But all this is a cover: he has in fact hatched the ‘perfect’ plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. The one thing that has prevented this plan from being put into operation is that selling the gold on the black market in Britain would be too risky and Holland is at a loss as to how to smuggle it abroad. One evening a new lodger — artist Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) — arrives at the boarding house where Holland lives in Lavender Hill. Pendlebury owns a foundry that makes presents and souvenirs that are sold in… Source

• The Lavender Hill Mob Movie Details
• Director: Charles Crichton
• Tagline: He stole $3,000,000 in gold and that's a lot of BULLion!
• Country: UK
• Run Time: UK:81 min
• Genre: Comedy , Crime

• Cast Overview
• Alec Guinness as Holland
• Stanley Holloway as Pendlebury
• Sid James as Lackery (as Sidney James)
• Alfie Bass as Shorty
• Marjorie Fielding as Mrs. Chalk
• Edie Martin as Miss Evesham

The Lavender Hill Mob Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951): Mr. Holland (Alec Guinness) has supervised the bank's bullion run for years. He is fussy and unnecessarily overprotective, but everyone knows he is absolutely trustworthy. And so, on the day the bullion truck is robbed, he is the last person to be suspected. But there is another side to Mr. Holland–he is also Dut… Source

The Lavender Hill Mob Movie Review from New York Times

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 w… Source

The Lavender Hill Mob Movie Details from Imdb

Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury’s smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel To… Source

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