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The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) - Digitally Restored - Region B Blu-ray

Description: Directed by Charles Crichton, who would much later direct John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda (1988), 1951's The Lavender Hill Mob is the most ruefully thrilling of the Ealing Comedies. Alec Guinness plays a bowler-hatted escort of bullion to the refineries. His seeming timidity, weak 'r's and punctiliousness mask a typically Guinness-like patient cunning. "I was aware I was widiculed but that was pwecisely the effect I was stwiving to achieve". He's actually plotting a heist. With more conventionally cockney villains Sid James and Alfie Bass in tow, as well as the respectable but ruined Stanley Holloway, Guinness' perf ... (more)
Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Release date: 1 August 2011
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5055201815934
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