Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successes in the U.S.: Passport to Pimlico (a small section of postwar London is discovered to be foreign soil), Kind Hearts and Coronets (a likable young man kills off six of his relatives), Tight Little Island (a whisky famine makes criminals of a whole island), Lavender Hill Mob (a mild-mannered clerk pulls off a bank robbery...
...role of the altruistic inventor who moves imperturbably through all the chaos is tailor-made for Alec (The Lavender Hill Mob) Guinness, with his sad, bland, foxy face. Deft sound-track embroidery: the rhythmical gurgles, bubbles, woofs and squirts of the test tubes that constantly point up the comic hubbub...
...Lavender Hill Mob. A sprightly British spoof with Alec Guinness stealing the show as a prim bank employee who absconds with $1,000,000 (TIME...
...Lavender Hill Mob. A sprightly British spoof with Alec Guinness stealing the show as a prim bank employee who absconds with $1,000,000 (TIME...
...mistake the producers of this film made was printing too many subtitles. Especially in scenes of mob violence, shouts and oaths need no explanation. Many translations are mere banalities...