The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Directed by Charles Crichton
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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The nutty climax transforms kinetic stylistics from Tony Scott and John Woo into play, yet, for all the amplified rifle-cocking, the movie is as gently British as The Lavender Hill Mob or Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- there's real fondness not just for the crash-a-tons being referenced, but also for a homey, practically imaginary England that, filled as it is with buried skeletons, has more life than Shaun's literally zombified London.
She was barely detectable in movies like The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) before she got her big break in William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953) playing a princess on a goodwill tour.
Roman Holiday was the first feature rôle for ballet aspirant and fashion model Audrey Hepburn -- previous bit parts included the opening sequence of The Lavender Hill Mob -- won her an Oscar and the acclaim and love that continue down to today, nearly a quarter century after her death, as in photographs everywhere of her Holly Golightly.
"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' is the kind of movie where you naturally play Spot the Influence: Tarantino, of course, and a dash of Hong Kong action pictures, and the old British crime comedies like "The Lavender Hill Mob.''