Lavender Hill Mob
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Contents. Plot Henry Holland is dining with a fellow Briton in a posh restaurant in where he is well known. He relates a story explaining his presence in Rio. It seems he was a seemingly unambitious London bank clerk in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He had a reputation for fussing over details and suspecting all cars he observed following the bullion van, but all in all appeared to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security.
In fact, he had hatched the 'perfect' plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. The one thing stopping him had been that selling the gold on the in Britain was too risky, and he was at a loss as to how to smuggle it abroad. One evening a new lodger – artist Alfred Pendlebury – arrives at Holland's boarding house in.
Pendlebury owns a that makes presents and souvenirs that are sold in many resorts, including foreign ones. Noticing how similar the foundry is to the place where the gold is made into, Holland decides that the ideal way of smuggling the gold out of the country would be as paperweights sold in Paris, and puts this hypothetically to his new friend: 'By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men.' 'It is indeed, Pendlebury.' When Holland suddenly finds that he is about to be transferred to another department at the bank, he and Pendlebury quickly move into action.
They recruit two petty crooks, Lackery Wood and Shorty Fisher , to help them carry out the robbery. The plan is simple but clever, and it succeeds: Wood and Fisher carry out the hijack of the bullion van and switch the gold to Pendlebury's works van. Holland, who is supposedly assaulted and almost drowned in the robbery, becomes the hero of the hour. The police find themselves running around in circles, unable to track down the 'master criminal' who is in fact right under their noses giving them false statements and misleading clues. Meanwhile, Holland and his associates melt the gold in Pendlebury's foundry and export it to France disguised as miniature Eiffel Towers. The plan goes wrong when the woman running the souvenir kiosk in Paris misunderstands her instructions due to a language mixup; instead of holding back the specially-marked box of Eiffel Towers, she opens it and puts them out for sale.
Pendlebury and Holland, who have adopted the names of 'Al' and 'Dutch', arrive to retrieve their disguised bullion only to find that six of the towers have been sold to a party of British schoolgirls. A wild chase back to the ferry follows but all sorts of hold-ups, including problems with the customs men, prevent them from getting to the ship and the girls in time.
If just one of those towers is found to be gold then the game is up. Pendlebury and Holland therefore track down the schoolgirls and, in exchange for a similar tower and ten, recover most of the loot.
One girl however refuses to return hers since she intends to give it to a friend who is a policeman. The girl delivers the souvenir to the officer, who is at an exhibition of police history and methods. Also attending is a police inspector who is investigating the robbery. As part of the case he checked up on Pendlebury's foundry and was told that many souvenirs bought in foreign places are actually made in Britain. A sudden thought occurs to him and he orders the souvenir to be tested. At that moment Pendlebury snatches it and he and Holland make their escape in a police car.
A confused pursuit then takes place through London, with Holland using the radio in the police car to give false descriptions of the vehicle in which the crooks are riding. Eventually, though, an officer succeeds in stopping their car and arresting Pendlebury. Holland escapes to with the six gold towers, worth '£25,000, enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.' But now, he finishes telling his visitor, the money is mostly gone. As they leave the restaurant, Holland is seen to be handcuffed to his countryman. Cast.
as Henry 'Dutch' Holland. as Alfred 'Al' Pendlebury. as Lackery Wood. as Shorty Fisher. as Mrs. Chalk.
as Miss Evesham. as Parkin. as Turner.
as Wallis. as Godwin. as Farrow. as Station Sergeant. as Clayton. as Senora Gallardo.
as Chiquita. as Gregory. as British Ambassador., and as Customs Officials. as Commander.
as Detective Superintendent. as Inspector Talbot. as P.C. Williams. as Divisional Detective Inspector. as City Policeman.
as Customs Official (uncredited). as opposition (uncredited) Cast notes. makes an early film appearance in a small role as Chiquita near the start of the film. Also made his first film appearance, playing a police laboratory technician towards the end of the film.
English actress made her first film appearance in this movie at the age of nine. British 1960s children's television icon also had an uncredited part in the film. Production Screenwriter Clarke is said to have come up with the idea of a clerk robbing his own bank while doing research for the film (1951), a crime thriller surrounding a jewel theft. He consulted the on the project and it set up a special committee to advise on how best the robbery could take place. Extensive location filming was made in both London and Paris.
The scenes show a London still marked by bomb sites from the. London, England, UK.,. Bramley Arms Pub, Bramley Road, (finale: end of the chase).
Carlton Road, (zebra crossing on way to police exhibition). (police exhibition)., (scene of bullion robbery)., (airport) Paris, France. In the car chase scene at the end of the film, an officer uses a to report seeing a police car being driven by a man in a top hat.
In fact, the driver is wearing the uniform of the police as originally set up in 1829 by, known as 'Bobbies' or 'Peelers.' The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower steps and become increasingly and erratic, as does the camera work, presages 's condition in 's, made seven years later. A film montage of sensational newspaper headlines marks the crime as taking place in August 1950. Awards and honours The film won the for. Guinness was nominated for the award of.
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The film also won the. See also. References Notes.
Alec Guinness
Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs.
Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.