One of the most effective British movies ever is streaming on Channel 4 for restricted time | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Back in 1951, Ealing Studios produced the basic comedy film The Lavender Hill Mob.

Set on the road of the identical identify in Battersea close to London’s Clapham Junction, the movie follows Alec Guinness’ clerk accountable for transporting a financial institution’s gold provides for the final 20 years. But now he’s determined to steal £1 million of it in a heist.

Ranked by the BFI because the seventeenth biggest British movie of all time, the film co-stars Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfie Bass.

Also look out for a pre-fame Audrey Hepburn in a small position as Chiquita firstly of the film, alongside Robert Shaw in his first movie look as a police laboratory technician close to the tip.

The movie is taken into account so good that in 1995 it was one of many 45 films chosen for the Vatican’s movie checklist below the 15 footage within the Art class.

With an ideal 100 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, the important consensus reads: “Fiendishly funny and clever, The Lavender Hill Mob is a top hat Ealing Studios effort.”

The Lavender Hill Mob is on Film4 this afternoon and will probably be streaming on Channel 4 for a restricted time afterwards.