Lavender Hill Mob, The

A FILM BY Charles Crichton

Synopsis

Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six of the gold miniatures are mistakenly sold to a group of English schoolgirls, and just when the amateur thieves think they've finally pulled off their heist without a hitch...

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Running Time: 81 mins.
Year: 1951

CREDITS

CAST

Alec Guinness

Sidney James

Stanley Holloway

DIRECTED BY

Charles Crichton