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The Lavender Hill Mob is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Jim O'Connolly released in USA on 15 october 1951 with Alec Guinness
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Add to a movie listThe Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. 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.
The original film was digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas on 29 July 2011 to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
Synopsis
Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is dining with a fellow Englishman in a posh restaurant in Rio de Janeiro where he is well known. He relates a story explaining his presence in Rio. It seems he was a seemingly unambitious London bank clerk in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He had a reputation for fussing over details and suspecting all cars he observed following the bullion van, but all in all appeared to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security. In fact, he had hatched the "perfect" plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. The one thing stopping him had been that selling the gold on the black market in Britain was too risky, and he was at a loss as to how to smuggle it abroad.Actors
Alec Guinness
(Henry 'Dutch' Holland)
Stanley Holloway
(Albert Pendlebury)
Audrey Hepburn
(Chiquita)
Sid James
(Lackery)
Alfie Bass
(Shorty)
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