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The Lavender Hill Mob
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 Ealing Studios crime comedy film, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.Henry Holland (Guinness) is a London bank clerk in charge of refining and delivering gold bullion. One day a frustrated artist, Alfred Pendlebury (Holloway), moves in to Holland's rooming house. Pendlebury would like to be a serious artist, but currently has a less inspiring job creating tourist trinkets—including lead paperweights shaped like the Eiffel Tower. Holland, seeing that Pendlebury has smelting equipment just like the bank does, hits on the idea of stealing the bullion from his bank, smelting it into Eiffel Tower figurines, and shipping said figurines out of England to be sold on the black market. Of course, something goes wrong.The Lavender Hill Mob won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Nearly 40 years after this film, Charles Crichton would direct A Fish Called Wanda, another comedy about a heist that goes wrong. Look for a brief appearance by none other than Audrey Hepburn, prior to her Star-Making Role in Roman Holiday, as Holland's Brazilian girlfriend.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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The Caper | |
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The Caper: Pend car carrying gold bullion! | |
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Armed Blag: A good example of the peculiarly British "rob an armored car" crime film. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Holland is arrested, will be tried for the robbery and probably spend a long time in jail but he did at least get to briefly live the life of luxury he never would have attained by honest means. | |
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All for Nothing: Holland gets away with only six gold Eiffel Towers, spends all the money from said towers in Rio, and is arrested. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: One of Holland and Pendlebury's neighbors is a demure-looking older woman whose favorite conversation topic is the plots of the pulp crime novels she reads. She thoroughly confuses two London policemen by peppering her speech with the slang she has picked up from her taste in books. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: The one schoolgirl who declines to sell her miniature Eiffel tower (which has loot from the robbery hidden inside of it) back to Holland and Pendlebury gives her tower to a friend who's a cop, leading to the caper's ruination. | |
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