Editing The Lavender Hill Mob (section)

==Reception==
''The Lavender Hill Mob'' had its charity world premiere at the [[Marble Arch Odeon]] cinema in London on 28 June 1951.<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/stanley-holloway/|title=Stanley Holloway |work=Art & Hue |date=2019 |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The film was popular at the British box office.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=258|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref> It had rentals of $580,000 at the U.S. box office.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Alec Guinness Now Money Star in US|url=https://archive.org/details/variety193-1954-01/page/n293|page=2|date=13 January 1954}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety206-1957-03/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22west+of+zanzibar%22|magazine=Variety|title=Rank's Rebel Yell|date=6 March 1957|page=10}}</ref>

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[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' gave the film a positive review, writing "Charles Crichton has directed the whole thing with a touch of polite and gentile mockery applied to wholehearted farce: that Mr. Guinness and Mr. Holloway are deliciously adroit in their roles."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=1951-10-16 |title=THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; 'The Lavender Hill Mob,' With Alec Guinness, First Offering at New Fine Arts Theatre |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/10/16/archives/the-screen-in-review-the-lavender-hill-mob-with-alec-guinness-first.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="variety1951">{{cite web |author1=Variety Staff |title=The Lavender Hill Mob |url=https://variety.com/1950/film/reviews/the-lavender-hill-mob-1200416855/ |website=Variety |date=1 January 1951}}</ref>
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Reviewing the film on its sixtieth anniversary, Peter Bradshaw of ''[[The Guardian]]'' called it "tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces [[Kind Hearts and Coronets]] and [[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]], and not quite matching their elegant perfection" noting that the superb setup is not quite matched by the aftermath of the heist.<ref name="Bradshaw">{{cite news |date=21 July 2011 |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |title=The Lavender Hill Mob – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/21/the-lavender-hill-mob-review |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London |quote=A before-she-was-famous cameo from Audrey Hepburn is a surreal frisson.}}</ref> [[Kim Newman]] writing for Empire magazine gave it 4 out of 5, "Guinness is masterful as the apparently unassuming Mr. Holland".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-01-01 |title=The Lavender Hill Mob |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/lavender-hill-mob-review/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Empire |language=en}}</ref>

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|score=100|count=70|average=8.6|consensus=Fiendishly funny and clever, ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' is a top hat Ealing Studios effort.|ref=yes |access-date=17 April 2024}}