Watch The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Free Online

Release Date: 1951

Cast: Edie Martin, Ronald Adam, Gibb McLaughlin, John Gregson, Stanley Holloway, Clive Morton, Alfie Bass, Sid James, Audrey Hepburn, Arthur Hambling, Alec Guinness, Robert Shaw

Categories: Movies, Parody, Crime Fiction, Crime Comedy, Caper story, Black-and-white, Comedy, Satire, Ealing Comedies

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode district SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station. The original film has been digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas, (July 29 2011), along with other classic Ealing comedies. Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a timid London bank clerk who has been in charge of gold bullion... MORE

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district of South London, in the postcode district SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station. The original film has been digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas, (July 29 2011), along with other classic Ealing comedies. Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a timid London bank clerk who has been in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He has a reputation for fussing over details and panicking about suspect cars following the bullion van, and appears to be a man dedicated to his job and the gold's security. But, in fact, he has hatched the "perfect" plot to steal a load of bullion and retire. The one thing that has prevented this plan from being put into operation is that selling the gold on the black market in Britain would be too risky, and Holland is at a loss as to how to smuggle it abroad. One evening a new lodger — artist Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) — arrives at the boarding house LESS