Basket Top
Basket Left
Empty
Basket Right
Basket Bottom

Login \ Create an Account 

 
 
Your AccountHelp Home

 

On this Page

>> Film Media

>> Reviews & Articles

>> Collections & Lists

>> Customers who bought...

>> Other Films by...

 

Website Security
HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime. MovieMail use a Thawte certificate to ensure secure transmission of your information. Click here for for information

 

Explore Film Catalogue

# World Cinema

# Classic Film

# Contemporary Film

# Silent Film

# Television

# Documentary

# Animation

# Art & Avant-garde

# Gay

 

 

Latest Film Catalogue

 

 

 

 

MovieMail Blogs

Milo WakelinCelluloid Confetti

by Milo Wakelin

Nixon II Oliver Stone Takes On Bush

Romero vs Argento Between a Rock and a Sharp place

Im Scratching my Itch for Hitch

 

James OliverFrom the Cheap Seats

by James Oliver

Sir David vs The Critics

Summer Lovin

Cavalcanti

 

MovieMail Blogs >

 

Film Media

Still of the Hour

The Cremator

The Cremator

 

Latest Stills

The Andzrej Wajda War Trilogy

David Niven Collection (Screen Icons)

Death of a Salesman (Hoffman)

Cluny Brown

A Cottage on Dartmoor

#View all stills

 

Articles

Sex, Class and Censorship

“You don’t come out of my films with a wonderful glow” - An interview with Terence Davies

Troubled by gnawing things: Rat-Trap

Gérard Depardieu-From Jacques the Lad to...?

The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s

#View all articles

 

Trailers

I Served the King of England
Medium (11.30 MB)

The Last Mistress
Medium (9.60 MB)

Up the Yangtze
Medium (12.70 MB)

The Boss of It All
Medium (4.00 MB)

War Inc.
Medium (16.00 MB)

#View all trailers

 

View Media Home >

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob Sleeve

Our DVD Price: £5.99

RRP: £12.99 Save £7.00 (53%)

 

special offer

Summer of British Film - from just £5.99!

click for details

Availability

In Stock - should be despatched within 72 hours.  This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times

 

Earn 25 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info

 

Film Description

One of the most affectionately remembered of the Ealing comedies, in which an unassuming bank teller fronts a plan to turn gold bullion into Eiffel Tower paperweights. A beautiful crime beautifully played out. Blink and you’ll miss a very young Audrey Hepburn. Tibby Clarke deservedly won an Oscar for the screenplay.

 

Film Information

Director Charles Crichton
Starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway

 

Genre Classic Film

 

Country UK Language ENGLISH   Year 1951

 

Technical Details

Certificate U   Length 80 mins   Label OPTIM
Cat No OPTD0604   Format DVD   Black & White
Region2    

 

Film Media

5 Stills

 

View Stills

 

 

 

Reviews & Articles

Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review

 

Browse all Film Reviews

 

Article - "Screening the Island : British Cinema" by Liam Lowry
Thursday 4th December 2003

In 1933, Alexander Korda’s gleefully saucy, The Private Life of Henry VIII made a huge international impact. Starring the sublime Charles Laughton, and launching the career of Merle Oberon, it announced the arrival of a cinema uniquely different from European ...  View article in full

 

 

Article - "Ealing Comedies" by Graeme Hobbs
Tuesday 1st June 2004

Kind Hearts And Coronets is not only still as beautifully wicked as you remember but gets better with renewed viewing. Most well-known for being the film in which Alec Guinness plays all eight members of the d'Ascoyne family (even appearing as six of them at t...  View article in full

 

 

 

 

Collections & Lists

This film is part of the following Film Collections

 

Best of British

Including: A Fish Called Wanda, A Matter of Life and Death , A Room With A View, Blow-up, Brazil, Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945), Brighton Rock, Caravaggio, Dont Look Now, Get Carter.

 

#View all collections

 

#Create your own Film List!

 

 

Customers who bought this also bought...

Recommendations from fellow customers

 

The Man in the White Suit

by Alexander Mackendrick

 

The Titfield Thunderbolt

by Charles Crichton

 

Seven Samurai

by Akira Kurosawa

 

La Regle du Jeu

by Jean Renoir

 

The Leopard

by Luchino Visconti

 

 

 

Other films by...

More films directed by Charles Crichton

 

Against The Wind

 

Hue And Cry

 

The Titfield Thunderbolt

 

The Battle of the Sexes

 

A Fish Called Wanda

 

View more >

 

More films starring Alec Guinness

 

A Passage To India

by David Lean

 

Great Expectations (Lean, 1946)

by David Lean

 

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

by Franco Zeffirelli

 

Oliver Twist (Lean, 1948)

by David Lean

 

Kind Hearts And Coronets

by Robert Hamer

 

View more >

 

More films starring Stanley Holloway

 

Nicholas Nickleby

by Alberto Cavalcanti

 

This Happy Breed

by David Lean

 

My Fair Lady

by George Cukor

 

The Titfield Thunderbolt

by Charles Crichton

 

Passport To Pimlico

by Henry Cornelius

 

View more >

 

 

 

Special Offers

Two Excellent DVDs for just £12!

Summer of British Film - from just £5.99!

More Great Offers


#

British Classics from Odeon Entertainment


#

A fine selection of World Cinema from just £6.99!


#

The Best in World War II Films and Documentaries


#

Sex, Class and Censorship


#

Feast on Chinese Film - from £5.99


#

The Films of the Boulting Brothers


#

Summer Holidays - from just £5.99!


#

The Best of the BBC - from just £5.99!

View all Special Offers

 

 

On the Black Hill

 

No Country for Old Men

 

The Great Lover

 

BestSellers

1

Recommended by MovieMail Angel Face

 

Our Price: £5.99

2

Recommended by MovieMail Kim (Saville, 1950)

 

Our Price: £5.99

3

Private Schulz

 

Our Price: £12.99

4

Recommended by MovieMail The London Nobody Knows / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

 

Our Price: £8.99

5

Recommended by MovieMail Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

 

Our Price: £15.99

6

Robbery

7

Black Five: The Last Days of Steam

8

The Orphanage

9

Seven Days to Noon

10

Cloak and Dagger

View all bestsellers >

 

Recommended by MovieMail

A curated collection of the best DVDs

 

Latest Additions

Recommended by MovieMail Juno

 

Our Price: £15.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Private Property

 

Our Price: £12.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

 

Our Price: £15.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Seven Days to Noon

 

Our Price: £8.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Sickerts London

 

Our Price: £11.69

 

 

Show:

 

 

View more
Recommended DVDs >

 

Just Released

Love in the Time of Cholera
by Mike Newell

The Orphanage
by Juan Antonio Bayona

Seven Days to Noon
by Roy Boulting / John Boulting

La Vie de Jesus (Masters of Cinema)
by Bruno Dumont

The Patrice Leconte Collection
by Patrice Leconte

View release schedule

 

Coming Soon

Four Minutes
by Chris Kraus

Black Five: The Last Days of Steam
by Paul Barnes

Target for Today
by Imperial War Museum

The Fugitive (Series 1, Volume 1)
by Various / TV

Azur and Asmar: The Princes Quest
by Michel Ocelot

View full schedule


Home   |  Film Catalogue  |  New Releases   |  Special Offers  |  Top 30
Film Collections  |  Film Media  |  News  |  Your Account  |  Help |  Become a MovieMail affiliate

For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk

© 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail

HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime. MovieMail use a Thawte certificate to ensure secure transmission of your information. Click here for for information