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7.2/10 • 251

1951-06-281h 18m

ComedyCrime

The men who broke the bank and lost the cargo!

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Directors
Charles Crichton
Editors
Seth Holt

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  1. Alec Guinness

    Alec Guinness

    Henry 'Dutch' Holland

  2. Stanley Holloway

    Stanley Holloway

    Albert Pendlebury

  3. Sid James

    Sid James

    Lackery

  4. Alfie Bass

    Alfie Bass

    Shorty

  5. Marjorie Fielding

    Marjorie Fielding

    Mrs. Chalk

  6. Edie Martin

    Edie Martin

    Miss Evesham

  7. John Salew

    John Salew

    Parkin

  8. Ronald Adam

    Ronald Adam

    Turner

  9. Arthur Hambling

    Arthur Hambling

    Wallis

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CharlesTheBold

Mar 3, 2017

Henry Holland ( Alec Guinness) is a clerk at the Bank of England. Because of his perfect record and self-effacing manner, he is considered thoroughly trustworthy and is even assigned to accompany shipments of gold. In reality Holland has a carefully hidden desire to commit the Perfect Crime, and is waiting for the big chance. The big chance comes when he befriends another frustrated man, Pendlebury (Stanley Halloway) who has the foreign connections that Holland needs. The result is a hilarious parody of the traditional gangster movie, which plays all the traditional tropes for laughs -- a holdup, a hostage thrown into the Thames, a French scene against the exotic backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, a car-chase. There is even a dizzying rush down the Eiffel Tower stairs that anticipates, in a comic mode, Hitchcock's VERTIGO. Holland's paradoxical character, half 90-pound weakling and half criminal mastermind, was of course designed to exploit Guinness's talent for playing multiple personalities. Though nobody knew it at the time, the movie would also become famous for one of Audrey Hepburn's first speaking parts, as a pretty waitress at the very start of the film.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
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Keywords
goldbanksouvenirpolice chaseealingarmored car robberyeiffel tower, parisfoundrybank clerk