Editing The Lavender Hill Mob (section)

==Production==
Charles Crichton says the origin of the film came with the success of ''[[The Blue Lamp]]''. [[Michael Balcon]], head of Ealing, got screenwriter Clarke to come up with ideas for a follow-up.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles Crichton Interview|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/sites/default/files/HP0072%20Charles%20Crichton%20-%20Transcript.pdf|date=14 December 1988|website=British Entertainment History Project|page=17}}</ref>

Clarke is said to have come up with the idea of a clerk robbing his own bank while doing research for the film ''[[Pool of London (film)|Pool of London]]'' (1951), a crime thriller surrounding a jewel theft. He consulted the [[Bank of England]] on the project and it set up a special committee to advise on how best the robbery could take place.<ref name="TheAurumFilmEncyclopediaGangsters">''[[The Aurum Film Encyclopedia]]&nbsp;– The Gangster Film'', edited by [[Phil Hardy (journalist)|Phil Hardy]], Aurum Press, 1998</ref><ref name="EmpireSpecialCollectorsEditionTheGreatestCrimeMoviesEver">''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]''&nbsp;– ''Special Collectors' Edition&nbsp;– The Greatest Crime Movies Ever'', published in 2001</ref>

Extensive location filming was made in both London and Paris.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044829/locations "Filming locations"] on IMDB. Retrieved December 2011</ref> The scenes show a London still marked by [[bomb sites]] from the [[Second World War]].

;London
* [[Bank–Monument station|Bank Underground Station]]
* [[Bank of England]], [[Threadneedle Street]]
* Bramley Arms Pub, Bramley Road, [[Notting Hill]] (finale: end of the chase)
* [[Cheapside]]
* Carlton Road, [[Ealing]] (zebra crossing on way to police exhibition)
* [[Gunnersbury Park]] (police exhibition)
* [[Queen Victoria Street, London|Queen Victoria Street]], [[Blackfriars, London|Blackfriars]] (scene of bullion robbery)
* [[RAF Northolt]], [[Ruislip]] (airport)

;Paris
* [[River Seine]]
* [[Eiffel Tower]]

The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower's spiral staircase and become increasingly [[Dizziness|dizzy]] and erratic, as does the camera work, presages [[James Stewart]]'s condition in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'', made seven years later.<ref name="EmpireSpecialCollectorsEditionTheGreatestCrimeMoviesEver"/> A film montage of sensational newspaper headlines marks the crime as taking place in August 1950, whilst posters for the Hendon exhibition state that it marks the centenary of the death of Sir [[Robert Peel]], which occurred on 2 July 1850. In the car chase scene at the end of the film, an officer uses a [[police box]] to report seeing a police car being driven by a man in a top hat. In fact, the driver is a modern-day police officer from the exhibition wearing the uniform of the police as originally set up in 1829 by Peel, known as "Bobbies" or "Peelers" after him.