The Lavender Hill Mob Trivia

1. Much of the beauty of this film comes from the relationship between the prinicpal actors, Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway. Sitting on the stairs after the party, Guinness asks Holloway if he can call him by a less formal name. What was the name?

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Answer: Alfred

He asks if he can call him Alfred, but Holloway says "call me Al" - which he does for the rest of the film.

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Answer: Moving into the hotel in which Holland is staying

After Holland has returned home from another busy day at the bullion office, he returns to the hotel foyer to answer the doorbell to find Pendlebury moving his belongings into the hotel. After introducing himself and then helping Pendlebury to move his belongings into the building, Holland is invited to have a look around Pendlebury's business premises. During this visit to Pendlebury's place of work, the final hurdle in Holland's plan to carry out his plans for a bullion robbery, disappears when Pendlebury tells him that he has a means of exporting goods abroad; 'By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men!'... 'It is indeed Pendlebury', states Holland as he stares knowingly at his new accomplice.

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Answer: Dutch

In a touching scene, it still seems a surprise that this mild-mannered bank clerk hides such (simple) desires as wanting a nickname.

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Answer: Craven 'A'

Craven 'A' was a popular brand of cigarettes, in the United Kingdom especially, during the 1940s and 1950s. The brand was owned by the Rothmans' Benson and Hedges group and named as far back as 1860 for the 3rd Earl of Craven. You will need to watch the film very closely to see the vending machine in the background during the scene in which Pendlebury is moving into the hotel.

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Answer: A Fish Called Wanda

In 1988, this film earned Crichton his first Oscar nominations, for Best Director, and for Best Original Screenplay with John Cleese. However the film won only one Oscar, with Kevin Kline picking up Best Supporting Actor.

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Answer: Gewgaws Limited

Pendlebury's souvenir company is, quite fittingly, called Gewgaws. This word has its origin in the Middle English words, gugaw which meant something worthless, a trifle; and geove, which meant a gift. Just as Pendlebury implies to Holland, he is a supplier of trifling gifts of little worth.

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Answer: 2

Alec Guinness was nominated as Best Actor, and he was beaten by Gary Cooper in "High Noon".

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Answer: Best Writing

T.E.B. Clarke won the Oscar for Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) in 1953. Winners in other categories that year included Best Actor Gary Cooper in "High Noon", Best Film "The Greatest Show on Earth", and Best Supporting Actor Anthony Quinn in "Viva Zapata!"

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Answer: Audrey Hepburn

The character was called Chiquita, and she spoke with Guinness in the opening sequence in South America. And she was breathtakingly beautiful, of course.

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Answer: 'presents from' trade

"...You know, presents from Brighton, souvenirs of Tunbridge Wells..."

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Answer: comparative beauty

I think Stanley Holloway was at his best throughtout this film. And, working with Guinness, the effect is magical.

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Answer: The Metropolitan Police Training School

The two crooks follow young June Edwards, and her souvenir, to the Metropolitan Police Training School where a public open day is taking place; and at which she has an uncle who is a serving police officer, for whom she had brought her gift. The young lady hands over her tower which becomes the subject of a police demonstration into forensic science. The tower is taken and placed in a sample of nitric acid; one of the few substances that will dissolve any metal except pure gold. As the golden gift fails to dissolve, the police realise what they have in their possession. The tower is snatched in desperation by Pendlebury who attempts to escape with it, closely followed by his accomplice Holland, both being hotly pursued by a number of police officers.

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Answer: Hendon

This is still the main Training College for Police in England.

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Answer: Old MacDonald's Farm

Escaping in a police radio car, Holland and Pendlebury confuse their pursuers by feeding false information over the radio network. Unfortunately they are forced to give a lift to a constable who overhears what is going on over the radio and realises that the car he is travelling on is the one that is carrying the crooks. As the police car becomes held up in traffic he summons more officers and although Pendlebury is arrested, Holland makes good his escape eventually leaving the country and travelling to Brazil and to freedom...or does he?

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Answer: He was colour blind

Shorty had to be the street artist, as Lackery was colour blind. Unfortunatly Lackery couldn't ride a bike, and Shorty couldn't draw!

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