THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (U) 1hr 21m *MATINEE 3PM
Schedule
Wed May 22 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Location
27A High Street, TQ9 5NP Totnes, United Kingdom | Totnes, EN
Dir: Charles CrichtonCast: Alec Guiness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
Genre: Classic Comedy
Alec Guiness gives a great performance as Henry Holland, the mousy, bespectacled bank clerk – a creation on which HG Wells and Dickens might have collaborated – in bomb-damaged postwar London. His job is to accompany gold bullion in the special van with armed security guards and, with the help of his friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) figures out a way to pinch the gold and smuggle it out of the country into Paris smelted down into bogus lead paperweights in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
“Tremendously good fun” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A glorious gem”, Phillip French, The Observer
“Inventive, economic, masterly” The Observer
We are open from 10am serving delicious homemade cakes, Crankhouse Coffees and Specialty Teas available until 10 minutes before the start of the film
Film starts at 3pm