A late great find: 60 years after it was made, I discovered this wonderful comedy winner of the BAFTA award for Film of the Year, the Best Actor award (Alec Guinness) given by the Society of Film Critics, and awarded in Venice and with the Oscar for its screenplay, written by T. E. B. Clarke. This anarchic yet gentle movie is hailed by some specialists as the best comedy ever made by the Ealing Studios, benefitted from great performances by Guinness and Stanley Holloway as the leaders of the Lavender Hill gang of thieves. Marvelous, imaginative, highly diverting film. See also, ingenious "Hue and Cry" (also directed by Crichton) and amusing and fascinating "Passport to Pimlico", among other Ealing products written by Clarke.
Review of The Lavender Hill Mob
