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...Lavender Hill Mob," Guinness is a petty bank official, a man who counts gold ingots as they are delivered from refinery to the vault. His name is Henry Holland (most fictitious meek Englishmen are named Henry), and his indrawn chin and cautiously ambling gait are the touches of a perfectionist. But behind Henry's humble facade there lies an astute mind, and when he has gathered his "mob" of two hoodlums around him to plan his gold robbery, he is a different...
...violence had subsided in Egypt's fight with Britain-and her allies-over control of the Suez Canal and the Sudan. Though they had stood by a fortnight ago while Egyptian mobs demonstrated and rioted in the streets, Egyptian leaders/last week issued a firm ban on mass demonstrations, and ordered police to enforce it. Thousands tested the ban in Alexandria and Cairo, coursing through the streets and breaking into shops. Police dispersed them with clubs, tear gas and gunfire. A mob descended on the Russian legation to cheer the Soviet.Union, but the cops also broke that up. Workers...
...Mob (Columbia) rates a B-plus for its efforts with a B-picture plot: the old one about the detective who bores from within a big-city racket to get the goods on the mystery man at the top. It is full of sluggings, shootings and characters with fake identities; the mastermind is the last anyone would suspect, and, at a venerably crucial moment in the final reel, the hero's girl falls into the villain's clutches...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
Lavender Hill Mob comes to the Exeter on Sunday with Alec Guinness at his comical best...