The run down the Eiffel Tower has always been a favorite of mine. What follows after that is some pretty funny situations, a mad run down the real Eiffel Tower and also one of the wildest police chase scenes ever filmed.
They use Holloway's foundry to make solid gold statues of the Eiffel Tower and send them to Paris to get them out of the country. The robbery comes off pretty much as planned, but afterward things don't quite work out. They pick up two other amiable allies in petty crooks Sidney James and Alfie Bass. Holloway even gives Holland the gangster nickname of Dutch. As the friendship grows, they stop referring to each other as Mr. Guinness's character name is Henry Holland and Holloway is Alfred Pendlebury. These two middle-aged men are living out a fantasy we'd all like to live, even if it means a touch of robbery.
It's so understated, but at the same time, so droll, funny, and touching. What makes The Lavendar Hill Mob work is the chemistry between Guinness and Holloway. Guinness recognizes both a kindred spirit and a solution to his problem. Another man with a dull life, looking for adventure. Into Guinness's life walks Stanley Holloway who's the owner of a small foundry that makes lead souvenirs for sale.
#Go down the ladder in bob the robber 2 professional#
Well, bigger and more professional criminals have failed to lick that one on occasion. As he's discovered a long time ago, the problem isn't the robbery, it's the fencing of the loot. And Sir Alec's imagination has been working overtime as to how a robbery could be accomplished. Every working day he accompanies the gold in an armored truck to the bank. Guinness's job is to supervise the transfer of gold bullion from where it is smelted into bars to the Bank of England. In fact his own superiors at his job, tell him to his face that his only virtue is a dull, honest dependability with a lack of imagination. Alec Guinness is once again playing a mild mannered schnook of a man who no one notices at all. Ealing studios in Great Britain had a reputation for producing some very droll comedies in the post World War II years and this one was done when Ealing was at its height.
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