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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Rate:
6
Viewed:
6/14
6/14:
The Lavender Hill Mob is a fairly decent British heist picture starring Alec Guinness.
Billed as a comedy, it fails to elicit a laugh from me. Perhaps the humor, whatever of it, is dated. Scoring the first Oscar
nomination of his storied career, Alec Guinness isn't bad. I'm just surprised how old, or rather how
unrecognizable, the guy looked at the time, but he was 38.
I thought that I was dreaming but felt sure it was her. But yep, it's Audrey Hepburn who makes a brief cameo
appearance which coincided with her first year of acting. Robert Shaw also makes his motion picture debut,
but I never saw him, having found out about it in the trivia section thereafter.
Anyway, I don't like the ending because it feels forced. Although the United Kingdom was lenient about such matters,
the original ending was frowned on in the United States due to the Hays Code.
All in all, The Lavender Hill Mob isn't a great picture, but it makes for a passable viewing.