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The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios. The movie was written by T.E.B. Clarke and directed by Charles Crichton. Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway starred as gold thieves. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode area SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Sir Michael Balcon (19 May 1896–17 October 1977) was a British film producer, best known for his work with the Ealing Studios. ...
Thomas Ernest Bennett Tibby Clarke (June 7, 1907 - February 11, 1989) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Stanley Augustus Holloway (October 1, 1890 - January 30, 1982) was an English actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady. ...
Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ...
Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. ...
General Film Distributors (GFD), was a British film distribution company active until the 1950s. ...
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1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...
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Ealing Studios, a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London, claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. ...
Thomas Ernest Bennett Tibby Clarke (June 7, 1907 - February 11, 1989) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. ...
Charles Crichton. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Stanley Augustus Holloway (October 1, 1890 - January 30, 1982) was an English actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady. ...
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Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
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SW11 is the postcode for Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth The post town for this postcode is LONDON. Categories: London postal districts | London geography stubs | Wandsworth ...
Clapham Junction is a railway station located in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
Synopsis Henry "Dutch" Holland (Guinness) is a timid bank clerk in London who has been in charge of gold bullion deliveries for many years. He has developed a reputation for fussing over details and panicking about suspect cars following the bullion van, but behind this all he has hatched the 'perfect' plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. One thing has prevented this plan for years, until a new lodger - Pendlebury (Holloway) - arrives at his boarding house. Pendlebury owns a foundry that makes 'A Present From ...' trinkets, exported to many resorts, and has also dreamed of the perfect plot to escape his life. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ...
A foundry is a factory which produces castings of metal, both ferrous and non-ferrous. ...
The realisation of their common dream is suddenly forced when Holland finds that he is about to be moved to a new department at the bank. Within a week, they recruit two petty crooks, Lackery Smith (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass) to help them carry out the robbery. Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ...
Alfie Bass as the Giant in The Goodies and the Beanstalk (VHS) Alfred Bass (April 8, 1921 – July 15, 1987) was a diminutive cockney-accented Jewish actor, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. ...
The plan is simple but clever. Lackery and Shorty will carry out the hijack of the bullion van and switch the gold to Pendlebury's works van. Holland knows that bullion is worthless in its native form, so they must melt the gold in Pendlebury's foundry and export it to France disguised as miniature souvenir Eiffel Towers. A foundry is a factory which produces castings of metal, both ferrous and non-ferrous. ...
The Eiffel Tower (French: , ) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. ...
As in all great comic adventures, the plan goes horribly wrong through a (simple) misunderstanding with the (French) lady at the Eiffel Tower souvenir kiosk. Holland and Pendlebury arrive to retrieve their disguised bullion to find six have been sold as miniature souvenir Eiffel Towers! The Eiffel Tower (French: , ) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. ...
The Eiffel Tower (French: , ) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris, France. ...
A wild chase back to the channel ferry follows and they manage to get five of the models back. The last one eludes them and after a high-speed multiple car chase through London, Holland escapes to South America, whilst Pendlebury is arrested. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
In the opening scene of the film, Holland is being arrested by British police for extradition to Britain, having spent a year living it up on the proceeds of the remaining model. It is not made clear what happens to Smith and Shorty.
Cast Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Stanley Augustus Holloway (October 1, 1890 - January 30, 1982) was an English actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady. ...
Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ...
Alfie Bass as the Giant in The Goodies and the Beanstalk (VHS) Alfred Bass (April 8, 1921 – July 15, 1987) was a diminutive cockney-accented Jewish actor, born in Bethnal Green, London, England. ...
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
Casting Audrey Hepburn makes an early film appearance in a small role near the start of the film. Reportedly, she was supposed to have had a major part in the film, but other commitments prevented this, so Guinness lobbied for her to be given a walk-on part. Although she speaks briefly to Guiness's character, what she says is virtually unintelligible. This was the first film featuring Hepburn to be given major distribution in the United States (most of her other early roles were in movies that were only distributed in Great Britain or Europe). Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...
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Robert Shaw, later famous for his roles in such films as Jaws and From Russia With Love, makes his film debut in a wordless role as a chemist in the police exhibition sequence. Robert Shaw may mean: Robert Shaw (footballer) Robert Shaw (actor) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
Jaws is a 1975 horror thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchleys best-selling novel of the same name, which was inspired in turn by the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ...
Awards The film won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. Guinness was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
// The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...
The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. This page lists the winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Film for each year, along with the nominees. ...
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