The Lavender Hill Mob

The DVD used Audrey Hepburn's first movie appearance as a promotion. Together with the fact that Alec Guinness is the leading man, I immediately jumped at the chance of watching the film.The film began with Alec Guinness recalling his life... Full review

The humour in this film starts with the title. Lavender Hill is a respectable middle-class area of London, so the idea of its being associated with a "mob", in the sense of a gang of criminals, is an incongruous one.... Full review

Ealing classic comedy. DVD review.A meek bank clerk decides to rip off his employer by transporting gold to France as souvenir Eiffel towers.Featuring one of Guinness' best performances as a supervisor in a bank vault. He plays an interesting character,... Full review

This is a comedy the talented Alec Guinnes did for the Ealing studio in the early part of his career. Of his Ealing days, he left us a legacy that is hard to surpass: "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "The Ladykillers"... Full review

Ealing Studios turned out a series of comic gems in the late 40s and early 50s and this is a good example. Only a curmudgeon would not laugh aloud during some of the scenes.The plot, briefly, involves a clever bank... Full review

Ealing studios are famous for making very dry and witty comedies; they're probably most famous for the excellent 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' and darkly comic 'The Ladykillers', but The Lavender Hill Mob, although not as good as the other two,... Full review

A banker decides to rob his own bank.A classic small British film that punches above it weight. Good cast get their teeth in to an Oscar winning script. The kind of film they should show at films schools to show... Full review

In my opinion - this is the best comedy movie ever made. There are few movies that can still generate belly laughs two or three years after their release. This movie is still funny after more than fifty years! Plus... Full review

Alec Guinness (1914-2000) plays a bank clerk who gets an idea to rob his own bank.He does that with the help of his friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) and two professional criminals Lackery (Sid James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass).Lavender Hill Mob... Full review

What hits you first about LHM is its smallness. It is a small film (78 min) made with a small budget about some small people. But their smallness doesn't stop them from dreaming the impossibly big - rob the Bank... Full review

And for film enthusiasts and fans of the genre, it will keep a great film alive. The Lavender Hill Mob is possibly one of its more overlooked features, but with its Academy Award win for Best Screenplay and nomination for Guinness as Best Actor, it certainly didnt go unnoticed. ... Full Review

This is one of the best loved of the Comedies, mainly because it is so ligh:hearted, but also because it shows someone behaving out of character and enjoying it. It is also very funny, largely due the unusual double act of Guinness and Sid James, he of the Carry On films ... Full Review

each has its defenders as the best of Ealing's crime comedies.....Some of Ealing's classic comedies were drolly subversive crime stories....Each of these films is excellent.... ... Full Review

Full Summary Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. ... Full Review

Bond has a long history with Pinewood Film studios Pinewood, Shepperton and Ealing have formed the backbone of the British film industry for the last 70 years. ... Full Article

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The grimly comic output of England's legendary Ealing Studios is revived, barely, in this homage to such funereal outings as The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers . ... Full Article

Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. ... Full Article