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Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900381246
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguagePortugueseOriginal Language
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1952
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Britain's Ealing Studios was at the top of its game when this classic comedy was released in 1951--one of the all-time best crime-caper comedies and a quintessential example of the witty and subtly subversive Ealing style. Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists and old friend (Stanley Holloway), who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris, right under the noses of British customs officials on alert for the missing gold. Panic ensues when six of the gold miniatures are mistakenly sold to a group of English schoolgirls, and just when the amateur thieves think they've finally pulled off their heist without a hitch ... well, let's just say this classic comedy has a few climactic tricks up its sleeve. Guinness is in peak form here, and director Charles Crichton (who scored a late-career hit with A Fish Called Wanda over a quarter-century later) keeps the action moving with impeccable British efficiency. Along with The Ladykillers and The Man in the White Suit (both starring Guinness), The Lavender Hill Mob represents the golden age of British comedy, and it's still delightfully entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
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"The Lavender Hill Mob" is another of those classic black and white British comedies of the 1950's - 1951 in this case - that were made by the near-legendary Ealing Studios--see Ealing Studios Comedy Collection (The Maggie / A Run for Your Money / Titfield Thunderbolt / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico). Ealing's greatest and best known comedies are probably The Ladykillers; and Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection, each starring Alec Guinness, as this film does. This one is not ... Read More
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This movie is a classic British comedy from the 50's.
I remember seeing it when I was very young and not understanding it very well.
Like a lot of British comedy it assumes that you know or appreciate the
circumstances of the average person in London.
The boarding house/ hotel he lives in for instance is nothing like
anything available in California, then or in most cases now.
When I went to school in LA in the '60's
I lived in an American version of this ... Read More
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What superlatives can one say about Alec Guinness that haven't been said? He was a great dramatic actor, as in "The Bridge on the River Kwai." He was a great comic actor, as in "The Ladykillers." Amd his genius comes through in the subject movie, in which he plays a mild bank clerk who becomes a mastermind thief of enormous comic proportions.
All of the humor is visual/physical, as Guinness and his cohort Stanley Holloway try to chase down some stray loot--in the hands of little English ... Read More
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I'm a huge movie buff, love Alec Guinness, and enjoy offbeat comedies, but my kids and I simply couldn't get into one.
Aneil
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Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway - A film for a lifetime! Lavender Hill (yes, that's really a district in London) Mob is another soft non-violent, clean, thoughtful comedy out of England's post war film Renascence - with the added joy of a thoughtful performance by a very young Guinness - who had already made his mark on cinema in heavy weight films like Great Expectations and Oliver Twist and as a multi-part actor in Kind Hearts and Coronets - Soft, thoughtful and funny. ... Read More
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