Movie Reviews for The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

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Movie Reviews of The Lavender Hill Mob

Movie Review: Still funny after more than 50 years
Summary: 5 Stars

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 schoolgirls. In one scene, for example, the two amateur crooks race down a tight circular stairway on the Eiffel Tower and cannot stop spinning when they reach street level.

There a lot of laughs here, as in a great chase scene in police cars, and excellent performances. One bit of trivia: What future Academy Award winning actress has a tiny bit part in this movie? Stanley Holloway later played her Cockney father in a movie.

Movie Review: Hilarious, sophisticated Ealing comedy
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a typically wonderful Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a lowly bank official in charge of transporting gold bullion for the Bank of England. For years he schemes how to steal some of it and finally figures a way: he enlists souvenir trinket caster Stanley Holloway and together they decide to cast their stolen gold into replicas of the Eiffel Tower and ship them to France where they will collect them.

A madcap chase follows involving innocent English schoolgirls on holiday who buy some of the Towers and a stolen police car; the final scene with Guinness in handcuffs is a real beauty. The humor is marvelously droll and sophisticated. This movie represents the famous Ealing Studios at their creative best. The DVD transfer is excellent and an interesting bio of Guinness is included. Definitely worth a watch.

Movie Review: The Lavender Hill Mob
Summary: 5 Stars

The unfolding of Henry's scheme creates a series of sublime comic situations you'll see on a movie screen. Guinness is predictably brilliant as the seemingly timid protagonist, and the ever charming Stanley Holloway (Alfie Doolittle from My Fair Lady) provides terrific support. Look fast in the first scene for a glimpse of future star Audrey Hepburn, and later, a young Desmond Llewelyn (Bond's beloved "Q") playing a customs inspector. One of Britain's tip-top comedies, crisply directed by Charles Crichton.

Movie Review: One of the best comedies ever made
Summary: 5 Stars

In the golden age of the british comedy in the fifties there was a real explosion of creativity and talent all the way .
This cap movie is about a thief who steals a lot of gold equivalent to twenty millions dollars and decide melt in a very particular way .
A triumph of the highest british refinement in what comedy concerns.