THE LAVENDER HILL MOB is the comedy that abounds extremely healthy humor. The humble bank employee after twenty years of service decided "serve" gold which he has been entrusted to transport, and that purpose devises and organizes perfectly clumsy and ridiculous robbery in which will help him a friend and several professional criminals.This is a movie that will help in the short term to lighten the mood. Here we do not talk about the bad guys, lawlessness, corruption and tolerance in man. The protagonists seem quite "drunken". One of them is quite calm and unobtrusive, the person who apparently would not hurt a fly, and yet the plan rather comical robbery and tremendous work in order to carry out his plan to the end. His friend was impatient and aggressive. They possess a strange propensity for giving up when things get awkward.It is interesting to see two completely different character in the same business. The robbery! Complications are comical and inevitable. Really top-notch entertainment, which offers plenty of British humor, a few funny chases and hilarious conflict in characters, so that pretty authentic location which is certainly surprising. I do not think that in any way making fun of someone or something. The acting is pretty good. Alec Guinness as Henry "Dutch" Holland and Stanley Holloway as Alfred "Al" Pendlebury They are skillful and highly entertaining in pairs. The ingenious and persistent against rash and cunning.

Another awesome comedy from Ealing studios era. Movie is very simple crime comedy but the involvement of Alec Guinness leads it to an other level. He is a genius actor, there is no second thought about it. It is about some normal lawful folks with ambitions of better living. They are fed up with normal life and finally take a big step to change their life-style. The crime portion is not much of importance but the humor within it, behavior of characters and all the little things in the screenplay which makes it a remarkable one. Movie is very short in length and follows straight routine. It never stick to a particular point. It has lots of ironic things involved in it. And I just can't imagine a better ending. Stanley Halloway also delivers a good performance but the movie belongs to Guinness only. The best thing about this film is that it never looses its cool. And loved the dialogues. There is also Audrey Hepburn cameo in it.

THE LAVENDER HILL MOB is a wonderful heist comedy that preceded THE LADYKILLERS by 4 years. Alec Guiness and Stanley Holloway are pretty square masterminds of a bullion robbery where everything seems to be going fine until a bunch of English school girls thwart their well laid out plans. Much hilarity ensues.The plotting is brilliant with some truly hilarious and surprising twists to the story. Especially the "surprise" at the end. There is a brilliant car chase and nearly everything about this movie was perfect. There is hardly a false note anywhere, not even in the most outrageously funny scenes.(10/10)

As I've said on all my Ealing movie reviews, I watched these cause the plots looked interesting but I'm still unsure on how to judge the movies. I'm not one to dismiss them as 'old' and therefore 'boring'; at the same time I don't just jump on the bandwagon saying they're classics just because they've got that reputation and a lot of people without even judging for themselves assume they're great. To quote to further my point - "A Classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read. A classic is also something that everyone praises but no one has read." -Mark TwainSo, watching this with an open mind, I really enjoyed it. Yes you have to realise it's not a modern movie so the kind of themes and scenes presented are different from the packaged elements of modern Hollywood, but that makes postwar British cinema very refreshing viewing. I think the use of the term 'comedy' is misleading because it most likely refers to it in the classic literary sense from Shakespeare and Greek theatre (probably in the early 20th century people were a bit better read than today so these terms would still have meaning to them) which refers to a story with happy ending and farcial plot and wit rather than obvious jokes like in the modern sense but even these movies have some funny scenes. Also the humour and premise is black comedy and subtle so look for something modern if you need laugh-out-loud movies. 'The Lavender Hill Mob' The plot and character development aside from Holland and Pendelbury is somewhat shaky in this although it does not stop us from enjoying the movie. The premise of some struggling working people madly deciding to form a 'mob' and the crazy problem of the Eiffle Tower models and the vertigo scene definitely make it a fun comedy and it's a movie I watch a lot when I need some light humorous distraction. A fun and charming early 50s piece.