The Lavender Hill Mob

Classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. However, Henry harbours dreams of becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes the acquaintance of Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway). The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled safely to France and sold on. However, things go awry when the gold statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold without their crime being detected.

Writer: T.E.B. Clarke
Actor: Ronald Adam
Actor: Jacques Brunius
Actor: Marjorie Fielding
Music: Ernest Irving
Actor: Edie Martin
Actor: Clive Morton
Actor: Sidney Tafler
Actor: Audrey Hepburn
Actor: Sid James
Actor: Stanley Holloway
Music: Georges Auric
Actor: Eugene Deckers
Actor: Alfie Bass
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
Producer: Michael Balcon
Director: Charles Crichton
Actor: John Gregson
Actor: Alec Guinness