I Speak the Saddest Words of Tongue and Pen Pol Was Right Again

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 film almost a meek banking company clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion who joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal golden bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Directed by Charles Crichton. Written by T.E.B. Clarke.

The men who broke the banking concern - and lost the cargo! (taglines)

Henry Holland [edit]

• I was a potential millionaire, however I had to be satisfied with eight pounds, xv shillings, less deductions.

Pendlebury [edit]

• Of all deplorable words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these - it might have been.
• I propagate British cultural depravity.

Dialogue [edit]

Pendlebury: Well, you might as well know. I was lying. I am a thief. It was madness to attempt it. Nosotros weren't cut out for criminal offence, either of us.

Policeman: Nosotros?

Pendlebury: My partner and I.

Sidewalk Vendor: Your partner? Here, if y'all're working with the fence who's got them other pictures...

Policeman: Shh! Carry on.

Pendlebury: Oh I make no excuses. All my life it's been my ambition to environs myself with rare and beautiful things. Of a sudden faced with this gilded opportunity...

Sidewalk Vendor: Here, you call that moving-picture show of mine rare and beautiful?

Pendlebury: Since you volition go on on interrupting me, you lot ought to know it's a mannerly example of an early Rochet, while he was still under the influence of Corot.

Sidewalk Vendor: Oh yeah? How much is it worth?

Pendlebury: 10 pound, to those who tin afford it.

Sidewalk Vendor: Oh blimey. I've had information technology marked upwards for five bob.

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Lackery: Bellamy'southward? In Bromley?

Shorty: That's right. Final June. Twelver.

Lackery: I was casing that articulation the dark you lot got pinched.

Shorty: Well, what practise you lot know? Shorty Fisher.

Lackery: Nice to run into you.

Pendlebury: Excuse me, I may be a bit deadening but do I understand that y'all ii are, in fact, both professional criminals?

Shorty: Well, what else do you take the states for, ruddy snoopers?

Lackery: What'southward the setup?

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Henry Holland: [almost his promotion out of the bullion office] I'1000 also old to alter my views now, sir.

Turner: Nonsense. You lot're never also former to better oneself. Think of what yous can do with an extra fifteen shillings a week.

Henry Kingdom of the netherlands: But sir, I similar the bullion office. It holds all I always wished for.

Turner: The problem with yous, Holland, if I may speak bluntly, is that yous do not take enough ambition. When a skillful opportunity comes along grab information technology with both hands. May not occur again.

Henry Holland: Very good, sir. I'll follow your advice.

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Turner: And, erm, hither'southward the club for tomorrow's consignment. Somewhat larger that I expected: 212 bars.

Henry Holland: That won't worry me, sir.

Turner: Dependable to the terminal. I'chiliad going to miss you lot, The netherlands.

Henry Holland: Y'all're very kind, sir. I shall always have the happiest memories of the dear old bullion part.

Turner: Has Mr. Applecrumby spoken to you nearly your vacation?

Henry Holland: Yes, sir. I'm going to Paris.

Turner: Paris, hey? You're stepping out, Holland. Wonderful isn't it, what a little extra money will do?

Henry Kingdom of the netherlands: Yes, information technology's going to make a big departure to me.

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Henry Holland: A minute later on, the baby-sit will announced around this corner, and you lot, Pendlebury, volition detain him for at least half a minute. Enquire him for a light, ask him the way, ask him anything, but keep him there, we must accept those 30 seconds.

Pendlebury: Edgar.

Henry The netherlands: I beg your pardon?

Pendlebury: Isn't one supposed to say that when one'south beingness briefed? On my rare visits to the movie theater...

Henry Holland: The discussion is "roger."

Pendlebury: Oh, roger. How dizzy of me.

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Pendlebury: Now it'due south all over, I suppose I may cartel say information technology's been a near remarkable coup.

Shorty: The biggest task of its kind since Ane-Eyed Dobson got away with the GIs' pay packets. Two million dollars, Grosvenor Foursquare, 'twoscore-5.

Henry Kingdom of the netherlands: That was before devaluation. And this is one meg pounds.

Shorty: Oh, that'south right. Blimey. Nosotros've got the record!

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Pendlebury: Past Jove, Holland, information technology's a practiced job nosotros're both honest men.

Henry Holland: Information technology is indeed, Pendlebury.

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Henry Holland: Instead of changing as usual at Charing Cantankerous, I came straight on to Rio de Janeiro. "Gay, sprightly, country of mirth and social ease." Pendlebury.

British human being: Plus half dozen Eiffel Towers. How much did they fetch?

Henry Holland: Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to continue me for ane year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.

Taglines [edit]

• The men who broke the banking concern - and lost the cargo!
• He stole $iii,000,000 in aureate and that'south a lot of BULLion!

Cast [edit]

• Alec Guinness - Henry Kingdom of the netherlands
• Stanley Holloway - Alfred Pendlebury
• Sid James - Lackery Wood
• Alfie Bass - Shorty Fisher
• Marjorie Fielding - Mrs. Chalk
• Edie Martin - Miss Evesham
• John Salew - Parkin
• Ronald Adam - Turner
• Arthur Hambling - Wallis
• Gibb McLaughlin - Godwin
• John Gregson - Farrow
• Clive Morton - Station Sergeant
• Sydney Tafler - Clayton
• Audrey Hepburn - Chiquita
• William Play tricks - Gregory
• Michael Trubshawe - British Administrator
• Eugene Deckers - Customs Official
• Cyril Chamberlain - Commander
• Moultrie Kelsall - Detective Superintendent
• Christopher Hewett - Inspector Talbot
• Meredith Edwards - P.C. Williams
• Patrick Barr - Divisional Detective Inspector

External links [edit]

• The Lavender Colina Mob quotes at the Net Pic Database
• The Lavender Hill Mob at Rotten Tomatoes

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