Other Titles • The Lavender Hill Mob • Einmal Millionär sein (1952) • Das Glück kam über Nacht (1952)
Trivia from The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Theatrical release: June 1951 (London).
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Theatrical release: October 15, 1951 (New York).
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THE LAVENDER HILL MOB is number 17 on the British Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century.
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T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for his script for THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. His other notable Ealing comedies include two more collaborations with Charles Crichton--HUE AND CRY and THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT--and Henry Cornelius’s PASSPORT TO PIMLICO.
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Alec Guinness was deservedly nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Dutch Holland. But he was not to win the Academy Award until 1957, when he received the Oscar for his extraordinary incarnation of Colonel Nicholson in THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
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Georges Auric (1899-1983) had a long and very distinguished career as a film music composer. In Britain, as well as working on several films with Charles Crichton, he composed music for Jack Clayton, Robert Hamer, Henry Cornelius, and Thorold Dickinson. The Hollywood directors for whom he composed scores included John Huston, Anatole Litvak, Otto Preminger, and William Wyler. And in France, he wrote scores for Max Ophuls and Rene Clair; for Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Rene Clement; for Roger Vadim and Georges Franju; for Jules Dassin, Julien Duvivier, and Jean Delannoy; and above all for Jean Cocteau.
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Audrey Hepburn, still only 22 years old, has a small part in THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. She can be seen briefly, but indelibly, in the openning sequence. She is only two years away from her breakthrough in William Wyler's ROMAN HOLIDAY.
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Robert Shaw made his screen debut with a small part in THE LAVENDER HILL MOB.
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In his 1995 memoir MY AMERICAN JOURNEY, General Colin Powell lists THE LAVENDER HILL MOB as one of his favorite films.
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