Lavender Hill Mob

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Considered by many to be one of Sir Alec Guinness' best comedies, The Lavender Hill Mob is a great little under-appreciated film. The DVD is part of a whole collection of Guinness' films released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, which also includes Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit and The Captain's Paradise. This film is presented in pan and scan with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, and includes a theatrical trailer, a bio of Guinness and a collectable 4 ...
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Overview

Considered by many to be one of Sir Alec Guinness' best comedies, The Lavender Hill Mob is a great little under-appreciated film. The DVD is part of a whole collection of Guinness' films released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, which also includes Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit and The Captain's Paradise. This film is presented in pan and scan with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, and includes a theatrical trailer, a bio of Guinness and a collectable 4 page booklet.
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Special Features

Four-Page Collectible Booklet; Alec Guiness Bio; Theatrical Trailer
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse
A 1951 comedy classic from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, The Lavender Hill Mob benefits from droll scripting by T.E.B. Clarke, who won an Oscar for his screenplay, airy direction by A Fish Called Wanda's Charles Crichton and, most of all, the delightfully eccentric performance of Alec Guinness. A classically trained actor with extensive stage experience, Guinness seemed very much at home in the madcap Ealing comedies. Here he plays timid bank clerk Henry Holland, who hatches a scheme for stealing the gold bullion he regularly escorts from refineries to vaults. With the help of a somewhat gormless friend Stanley Holloway and two Cockney crooks Sidney James and Alfie Bass, Henry grabs a cool million in bullion -- which gets melted down, cast into small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower, and shipped to France! Clarke's script abounds with complications and climaxes with a hilarious, masterfully choreographed chase sequence. Crichton is at the top of his game, whisking Guinness and company from one improbable situation to the next and wringing every drop of humor from each. The roles are perfectly cast, and the acting is uniformly excellent by the way, look closely and you'll spot a young Audrey Hepburn in the opening sequence. This kind of character-driven comedy, sadly, has all but vanished from today's movies, but Lavender Hill Mob is a glorious reminder of an earlier, much funnier era. It also represents a tour de force for Guinness, an accomplished comic actor whose early screen triumphs have been ignored in the wake of his success as Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi. The DVD includes a Guinness biography and the film's theatrical trailer as supplemental features.
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The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers can almost serve as companion pieces to each other. Both are hilarious British caper comedies of the 1950s, but both also feature astonishingly different central performances from Alec Guinness. While in The Ladykillers Guinness is a fiendish crook whose criminality is evident from his first appearance, in The Lavender Hill Mob he is a mousy milquetoast named Holland, the unlikeliest of thieves who uses the trust that others place in him to set his plan into motion. Guinness' delightful performance as Holland earned him his first Oscar nomination, and he is supported by a fun cast that includes Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, and Alfie Bass. T.E.B. Clarke's Oscar-winning script ingeniously sets up the story by having Holland recount his tale after-the-fact, and Clarke's characters and story line possess an unpredictability that makes the film easily maintain interest throughout. More than 35 years later, director Charles Crichton made another caper comedy, A Fish Called Wanda, that recaptured the carefree sensibility that makes The Lavender Hill Mob so enjoyable. It is also worth noting that a very young Audrey Hepburn has a brief appearance in the opening scene and veteran character actor Peter Bull can be quickly spotted in an unbilled cameo.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 9/10/2002
  • UPC: 013131147599
  • Original Release: 1951

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  • Source: Starz / Anchor Bay
  • Region Code: 1
  • Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
  • Presentation: Black & White
  • Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Language: English, Français
  • Time: 1:21:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Alec Guinness Henry Holland
Stanley Holloway Alfred Pendelbury
Sidney James Lackery Wood
Alfie Bass Shorty Fisher
Marjorie Fielding Mrs. Chalk
Ronald Adam Turner
Edie Martin Miss Evesham
John Salew Parkin
Arthur Hambling Wallis
Gibb McLaughlin Godwin
John Gregson Farrow
Clive Morton Station Sergeant
Frederick Piper Cafe Owner
Peter Bull Joe the Gab
Patric Doonan Craggs
Marie Burke Senora Gallardo
Audrey Hepburn Chiquita
Michael Trubshawe Ambassador
Patrick Barr Inspector
Jacques Brunius Official
Jacques Cey
Joe Clark
Cyril Chamberlain Commander
David Davies City Policeman
Eugene Deckers Customs Official
Paul Demel Customs Official
Archie Duncan
Meredith Edwards P.C. Williams
Frank Forsyth
William Fox Gregory
Fred Griffiths
Ann Heffernan Kiosk Girl
Christopher Hewett Inspector Talbot
Moultrie Kelsall Detective Superintendant
Charles Lamb
Andrea Malandrinos Customs Official
Arthur Mullard
Marie Ney
Tony Quinn Deputy Commander
Robert Shaw
Sydney Tafler Clayton
John Warwick
Technical Credits
Charles Crichton Director
Georges Auric Score Composer
Michael Balcon Producer
T.E.B. Clarke Screenwriter
Stephen Dalby Sound/Sound Designer
Seth Holt Editor
Ernest Irving Musical Direction/Supervision
William Kellner Art Director
Anthony Mendleson Costumes/Costume Designer
Syd Pearson Special Effects
Norman Priggen Asst. Director
Jeff Seaholme Camera Operator
Douglas Slocombe Cinematographer
Ernest Taylor Makeup
Michael Truman Associate Producer
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Program Start/Main Titles [2:00]
2. Big Spender [2:28]
3. Guardian of the Gold [3:28]
4. Lavender Hill Hotel [3:19]
5. Pendlebury's Profession [5:22]
6. Now or Never [2:47]
7. Unique Recruitment [4:57]
8. A Gilt-Edged Proposition [3:57]
9. A Beautiful Day for a Heist [4:51]
10. "They Got Mr. Pendlebury!" [4:31]
11. Case Dismissed [4:41]
12. Hero's Welcome [3:32]
13. Police Manhunt [4:36]
14. The Lavender Hill Mob [2:00]
15. "The World Is Ours" [5:01]
16. Holland and Pendlebury Miss the Boat [3:25]
17. Under Suspicion [3:05]
18. Stubborn Little Girl [3:15]
19. Metropolitan Police Training School [5:28]
20. Stolen Car [4:12]
21. Old McDonald Had a Farm [2:59]
22. End Credits [1:04]
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Menu

Side #1 --
   Chapter Selections
   Extras
      Trailer
      Alec Guinness Bio
   Languages
      English
      French
   Play
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