The Lavender Hill Mob1951
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Cast
as Henry Holland
as Alfred Pendelbury
as Lackery Wood
as Shorty Fisher
as Mrs. Chalk
as Turner
as Commander
as Craggs
as P.C. Williams
as Joe the Gab
as Gregory
as Farrow
as Senora Gallardo
as Wallis
as Chiquita
as Insp. Talbot
as Inspector
as Miss Evesham
as Godwin
as Station Sgt.
as Parkin
as Clayton
as Ambassador
as Official
as Cafe Proprietor
as Schoolgirl with Paperweight
as Kiosk Girl
as Customs Official
as Customs Official
as Customs Official
as Deputy Commander
as Detective Superintendant
as City Policeman
as Mr. Richards
as Chief Cashier
as Taxi Driver
as 1st Man in Police Identity Parade
as Customs Official
as School Headmistress
as Police Inspector at Squad Car Headquarters
as Chemist at Police Exhibition
Critic Reviews for The Lavender Hill Mob
All Critics (30) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (0) | DVD (3)
You are left wanting more rather than thinking less would have been better.
It's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers...
Both 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.
Alec Guinness shines in this hilarious British comedy.
Charles 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.
The genre of the caper-gone-wrong crime comedy may have been invented circa 1950 in Ealing Studios… Mob avoids most of what became the clichés of the genre.
Audience Reviews for The Lavender Hill Mob
Guinnes creates an ordinary man striving for a dream, a mad and illegal one, but a dream anyhow. Contagiously charming and funny.
Super Reviewer
The Lavender Hill Mob, one of the Ealing Studios classics was definitely amusing and had a few hysterical moments, but I didn't love it. The humor was witty and drier than Kafka in the Sahara. The movie has a reputation of being an absolute laugh riot (at least from what I've heard) but I didn't feel like the movie lived up to that expectation. Alec Guinness was as always superb, but the movie was nothing to flip out over. The 30 seconds of a young Audrey Hepburn definitely helped though...
Super Reviewer
Brilliant Ealing comedy, this pitch-perfect crime caper stars Alec Guinness in one of his finest performances, a timid clerk who decides to claim himself a fortune with a motely crew including Ealing mainstay Stanley Holloway. The film is probably the template for all bungling crime films, but mercifully lacks the slapstick of its imitators. Pacy and highly comical, this is definately worth your while. Watch out as well for Audrey Hpburn's tiny role as Chiquita in the first scene as well!
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