The Lavender Hill Mob (Blu-ray disc)

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Classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. However, Henry harbours dreams of becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes the acquaintance of the artist, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway). The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled safely to France and sold on. However, things go awry when the gold statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold without their crime being detected. The film features a brief cameo from a young Audrey Hepburn.

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Classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. However, Henry harbours dreams of becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes the acquaintance of the artist, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway). The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled safely to France and sold on. However, things go awry when the gold statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold without their crime being detected. The film features a brief cameo from a young Audrey Hepburn.

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  • Interactive Menus
  • Bonus Footage
  • Trailers
  • Interviews: Excerpt from BECTU interview with Charles Crichton, Good Afternoon: Mavis interviews TEB Clarke

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Studio

Optimum Home Entertainment

Release date

August 2011

Availability

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Movie released

1951

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Dimensions

170 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)

Format

Blu-ray disc

Region encoding

Region B. This Blu-Ray will play in all South African Blu-Ray players. Region B. This Blu-Ray will play in all South African Blu-Ray players.

Audio format

Dolby Digital Mono

Video format

Standard 4:3 (1.33:1)

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Age restriction

A

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LSN

XRA-LKM-RNE-4



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