... 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

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

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

| 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

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

Guinness carries the film easily and almost completely, aided and abetted by Director Charles Chrichton.

| Apr 17, 2024

The Lavender Hill Mob is a highly amusing satire on the gangster and chase-type of films and is a result of a successful combination of picture makers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2024

Guinness steers a delightful course between the subtle and the broad, drawing a portrait that is devastating and, if you choose to look at it that way, frightfully unmoral, or amoral, as well.

| Apr 17, 2024

The acting is impressively good with Alec Guinness giving an exquisite and terrifyingly real interpretation of the secret thoughts that must invade those mild-mannered fellows who cash your checks and remind you of your overdrafts.

| Apr 17, 2024

The lavender Hill Mob is highly recommended for an evening of movie enjoyment.

| Apr 17, 2024

What goes on in the mind of a meek, low-salaried little man in a position of trust is put into the movie's perfectly-executed action.

| Apr 17, 2024

The new Ealing comedy gives us all the fun of safe breaking without any sense of guilt and no danger at all.

| Apr 17, 2024

While the story of their nearly perfect crime is slight, it is skillfully sly and subtly humorous, and its people are warmly human and idiotic.

| Apr 17, 2024

The Alec Guinness picture is top-hole, as they say in England, with some wonderful wit, jolly dialogue and an alluring plot.

| Apr 17, 2024

The director and his script-writer have, in fact, proved once Gin that fanciful film craft is much less important than a good story and that the secret of the success of Ealing Studios is that they persist in daring to be insular.

| Apr 17, 2024

The script by the novelist and screenwriter TEB Clarke is littered with nifty contrivances and misunderstandings, and the direction from Charles Crichton is snappy and precise, without a single wasted moment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2024

You are left wanting more rather than thinking less would have been better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2011