The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
British quad poster
Directed byCharles Crichton
Written byT. E. B. Clarke
Produced byMichael Balcon
StarringAlec Guinness
Stanley Holloway
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited bySeth Holt
Music byGeorges Auric
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 28 June 1951 (1951-06-28) (UK)[1]
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$31,288[2]

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 British comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district in London SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station.

The British Film Institute ranked The Lavender Hill Mob the 17th greatest British film of all time. The original film was digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas on 29 July 2011 to celebrate its 60th anniversary.[3] It is one of fifteen films listed in the category "Art" on the Vatican film list.[4]

  1. ^ "Stanley Holloway". Art & Hue. 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  2. ^ "The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 28 May 2024.Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ The Guardian 15 July 2011: Cream of the cockney crop Retrieved 19 April 2012
  4. ^ "USCCB – (Film and Broadcasting) – Vatican Best Films List". 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2021.

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