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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob was one of Ealing's most successful pictures starring Alec Guinness as the long-serving bank employee, Stanley Holloway as a souvenir manufacturer, and Sid James and Alfie Bass as a pair of crooks recruited to make the caper work. The plan was largely concocted by the Bank of England itself, when it was asked by a film company for advice on how to steal a million pounds' worth of gold. A committee was quickly brought together to work out a way in which the Bank could be robbed.
Inevitably the robbery, which was planned to occur while the bullion was in transit between refinery and vaults, goes wrong, as one of them is arrested in the middle of it for stealing a painting off a market stall. But the chief downfall is caused by a consignment of gold Eiffel Towers getting mixed up with genuine souvenirs on the sales stand in Paris. A batch of English schoolgirls buy them, which leads to a hunt to recover them. The last one ends up in a police exhibition, and the now intrepid criminals steal a police car to make their escape, frustrating the hunt by broadcasting false messages from it. Our VW remembers the movie which was launched back in 1951 with the profile of Sir Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.

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