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Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway are gold smugglers in this crime comedy from Oscar-nominated director Charles Crichton (A Fish Called...
Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway are gold smugglers in this crime comedy from Oscar-nominated director Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda).
A retiring bank clerk (Guinness) who oversees the shipment of bullion befriends his eccentric souvenir-making neighbour and they together plot to smuggle the bank's bullion out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
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100 %71 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
86 %5,542 reviewsAudience score rating
"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
Time Out"Alec Guinness shines in this hilarious British comedy."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"Both a joyous comedy and a tense thriller. Indeed, its climactic car-chase sequence is easily as dramatic as any of those found in today's summer blockbusters."
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Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph"It's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers..."
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The Guardian
The GuardianThe Lavender Hill Mob | Details
Award winner- Winner of Best Screenplay, 1953 Academy Awards; Best British Film, 1952 BAFTAs; Best Screenplay 1951 Venice Film Festival
- Rating
- U,
- Runtime
- 78
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- UK
