The Lavender Hill Mob (Blu-ray)
The men who broke the bank and lost the cargo!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 3, 2019
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James & Alfie Bass | |
Performer: | Ronald Adam, Gibb McLaughlin, John Gregson, Marie Burke, Christopher Hewett & Audrey Hepburn | |
Directed by | Charles Crichton | |
Edited by | Seth Holt | |
Screenplay by | T.E.B. Clarke | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Art Direction by | William Kellner | |
Produced by | Michael Balcon | |
Director of Photography: | Douglas Slocombe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1952 -
Best Original Screenplay: T.E.B. Clarke
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Inflation may have dented the allure of its 1m bullion heist, but this 1951 Ealing comedy is still 24-carat gold.
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Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
The real joy of the movie is less about the caper than these two invisible, workaday men discovering the thrills of attempting something extraordinary - even if it is felonious.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Rating: 4/5 --
You are left wanting more rather than thinking less would have been better.
London Evening Standard
Rating: A- --
Alec Guinness received a well deserved Oscar nomination for this hilarious British comedy
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 5/5 --
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.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
Alec Guinness shines in this hilarious British comedy.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Alec Guinness earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination and T.E.B. Clarke a Best Story and Screenplay Oscar win for this captivating tale.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
Mr. Holland (Alec Guinness) has supervised the bank's bullion run for years. He is fussy and unnecessarily overprotective, but everyone knows he is absolutely trustworthy. And so, on the day the bullion truck is robbed, he is the last person to be suspected. But there is another side to Mr. Holland--he is also Dutch, the leader of THE LAVENDER HILL MOB.
Prolific Ealing writer T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for his deft script for THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. But he was helped greatly by the precise direction and impeccable timing of director Charles Crichton, and by the brilliance of Alec Guinness's performance. When he tries to recruit Mr. Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) as Pendlebury chips away at one of his sculptures, Guinness circles Holloway, playfully seducing him into the idea of robbery and, as Holloway finally understands the proposition, Guinness looks back over his shoulder like some elfin Lucifer. When the mob goes over its robbery plans, Guinness insists on a detail and Shorty (Alfie Bass) acknowledges that Guinness is the boss. Guinness, concentrating, agrees. Then, as he relaxes and eases back in his chair, Guinness sheds his years of servitude to the bank--Dutch Holland is indeed the boss.
Prolific Ealing writer T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for his deft script for THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. But he was helped greatly by the precise direction and impeccable timing of director Charles Crichton, and by the brilliance of Alec Guinness's performance. When he tries to recruit Mr. Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) as Pendlebury chips away at one of his sculptures, Guinness circles Holloway, playfully seducing him into the idea of robbery and, as Holloway finally understands the proposition, Guinness looks back over his shoulder like some elfin Lucifer. When the mob goes over its robbery plans, Guinness insists on a detail and Shorty (Alfie Bass) acknowledges that Guinness is the boss. Guinness, concentrating, agrees. Then, as he relaxes and eases back in his chair, Guinness sheds his years of servitude to the bank--Dutch Holland is indeed the boss.
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