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06/24/06
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 20 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Synopsis: Mr. Holland (Alec Guinness) has supervised the bank's bullion run for years. He is fussy and unnecessarily overprotective, but everyone knows he is absolutely trustworthy. And so, on the day the bullion truck is robbed, he is the last person to be suspected. But there is another side to Mr.... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Alfie Bass, Sidney James
Director: Charles Crichton
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08/13/02
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07/01/06
The genre of the caper-gone-wrong crime comedy may have been invented circa 1950 in Ealing Studios… Mob avoids most of what became the clichés of the genre.
05/31/04
Delightful if mostly forgettable farce about an unexpected robbery, with nimble if showy multiple performance by Alec Guinness.
10/11/03
Class identity is at the center of the Ealing Studios comedy once again, as middle class nobodies play at crime.
08/12/03
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05/20/03
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