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...This spoof on a rather shabby world is stitched through with a wealth of humorous design by Authors Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Co-Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

This tenuous little spoof-on-a-bicycle is no weightier than a postcard, and its contents are no more momentous. But in the sprightly pantomiming of Actor Tati (who also directed and co-authored the screenplay), the picture occasionally seems to be arriving by special delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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