ComedyCrime

The Lavender Hill Mob

- The men who broke the bank and lost the cargo!

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Release Date : 1951-06-28

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Ealing StudiosThe Rank Organisation

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Henry 'Dutch' Holland

Original Name : Alec Guinness

Gender : Male

Character Name : Albert Pendlebury

Original Name : Stanley Holloway

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lackery

Original Name : Sid James

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shorty

Original Name : Alfie Bass

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Chalk

Original Name : Marjorie Fielding

Gender : Female

Character Name : Miss Evesham

Original Name : Edie Martin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Parkin

Original Name : John Salew

Gender : Male

Character Name : Turner

Original Name : Ronald Adam

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wallis

Original Name : Arthur Hambling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Godwin

Original Name : Gibb McLaughlin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Farrow

Original Name : John Gregson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Station Sergeant

Original Name : Clive Morton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clayton

Original Name : Sydney Tafler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Señora Gallardo

Original Name : Marie Burke

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chiquita

Original Name : Audrey Hepburn

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gregory

Original Name : William Fox

Gender : Male

Character Name : British Ambassador

Original Name : Michael Trubshawe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kiosk Girl

Original Name : Ann Heffernan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Official

Original Name : Jacques Brunius

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Official

Original Name : Eugene Deckers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Official

Original Name : Paul Demel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Customs Official

Original Name : Andreas Malandrinos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commander

Original Name : Cyril Chamberlain

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy Commander

Original Name : Tony Quinn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Detective Superintendant

Original Name : Moultrie Kelsall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Inspector Talbot

Original Name : Christopher Hewett

Gender : Male

Character Name : P. C. Williams

Original Name : Meredith Edwards

Gender : Male

Character Name : Divisional Detective Inspector

Original Name : Patrick Barr

Gender : Male

Character Name : City Policeman

Original Name : David Davies

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chemist at Police Exhibition

Original Name : Robert Shaw

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Driver

Original Name : Richard Davies

Gender : Male

Reviews

CharlesTheBold

@CharlesTheBold

2021-06-23

Henry Holland ( Alec Guinness) is a clerk at the Bank of England. Because of his perfect record and self-effacing manner, he is considered thoroughly trustworthy and is even assigned to accompany shipments of gold. In reality Holland has a carefully hidden desire to commit the Perfect Crime, and is waiting for the big chance. The big chance comes when he befriends another frustrated man, Pendlebury (Stanley Halloway) who has the foreign connections that Holland needs. The result is a hilarious parody of the traditional gangster movie, which plays all the traditional tropes for laughs -- a holdup, a hostage thrown into the Thames, a French scene against the exotic backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, a car-chase. There is even a dizzying rush down the Eiffel Tower stairs that anticipates, in a comic mode, Hitchcock's VERTIGO. Holland's paradoxical character, half 90-pound weakling and half criminal mastermind, was of course designed to exploit Guinness's talent for playing multiple personalities. Though nobody knew it at the time, the movie would also become famous for one of Audrey Hepburn's first speaking parts, as a pretty waitress at the very start of the film.