It’s a very breezy, casually funny caper that revels in how paper-thin the characters’ motivations are.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2024

Like a lesser Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavendar Hill Mob is lightly class-conscious about the desperation for money in post-war Britain, relies heavily on the immensely talented Guinness’s performance, is queer-coded, and a highly amusing caper.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2024

... A wonderfully disreputable little farce.

| Apr 22, 2024

Alec Guinness is delightfully dry as the thinking worm and Stanley Holloway a perfect foil as the blustery geegaw manufacturer.

| Apr 18, 2024

The ingenious starting point of T.E.B. Clarke's script of The Lavender Hill Mob provides some episodes of original and diverting comedy, and allows Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway to develop two characterizations in lively contrast.

| Apr 18, 2024

A British riot.

| Apr 18, 2024

Another of those relaxed, delightful whimsies which the British seem to be able to compound out of a slightly off-beat idea, a true eye for character, and a liberal lacing of the national humor.

| Apr 18, 2024

The Lavender Hill Mob is funny in word and deed.

| Apr 18, 2024

Cleverly written, directed, and acted, it is a sly burlesque on crime pictures in general.

| Apr 18, 2024

T.E.B. Clarke's script is a tongue in cheek masterpiece of ingenious improbability.

| Apr 18, 2024

Mr. Holloway supports Mr. Guinness with an unerring instinct for the right comic note.

| Apr 18, 2024

A deliciously droll, ingenious English comedy.

| Apr 18, 2024

Guinness' performance is a sly one, a delightful blending of mousiness and craftiness, and he goes about it in a highly engaging way.

| Apr 18, 2024

The picture is hilarious, excellently timed.

| Apr 18, 2024

As a blues-chaser, this sparkling comedy is most heartily recommended.

| Apr 18, 2024

Alec Guinness... is delightfully respectable as the mister-mind who is ever so pleased with himself within his general air of suburban meekness.

| Apr 18, 2024

It is the rich imagination and turn of humor showing left and right in the script that makes The Lavender hill Mob such enjoyable fare.

| Apr 18, 2024

A lark and a laugh from beginning to end.

| Apr 18, 2024

This is a rare comedy treat.

| Apr 17, 2024

This much is certain, the ways of the ancient Keystone Kops have been carefully studied and diligently absorbed here.

| Apr 17, 2024