"You Naughty, Naughty Men"-'The Lavender Hill Mob' Trivia Game | Movies

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1. At the very beginning of the film, central character Holland is sitting in a cocktail bar talking to another Englishman smoking a pipe, when he is approached by a beautiful young woman. Which elfin, Belgian born actress, in one of her earliest roles, plays the part of Chiquita?

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

In one of her earliest film roles, Audrey Hepburn only appears for a very brief moment, less than twenty seconds in fact; just long enough to be handed a small quantity of banknotes by Holland and told to 'run along and get yourself a little birthday present', before she kisses him on the cheek and leaves.

Although Hepburn appears on this sole occasion during the film, due to its eventual success it is considered that her appearance as Chiquita was her first major film role. Hepburn went on to become one of the most famous actresses of her time, with perhaps her most famous roles being Princess Ann in the 1953 film 'Roman Holiday' and Holly Golightly in the 1961 romantic comedy 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'.

Other actors in minor roles that went on to have successful careers in later years were Robert Shaw, who appeared as a young forensic technician and BBC children's television presenter Valerie Singleton who presented 'Blue Peter' for many years during the 1960s and 1970s but received no credit for her part in the film.

2. Arthur Pendlebury, destined to become Holland's accomplice, is doing what when they first meet?

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.

3. Which brand of cigarettes can be purchased from the vending machine that can be seen in the entrance foyer of the Balmoral private hotel; the hotel in which Holland and Pendlebury are living?

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.

4. Pendlebury tells Holland that he was in the 'a present from' business; he manufactured cheap gifts and souvenirs in die-cast metals. What was the name of Pendlebury's die casting business?

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.

5. In keeping with the social custom of the time, unless men were family members or were very close friends, Christian or first names were rarely, if ever, used. The first name of Holland, is only mentioned once in the entire film. What is Holland's alliterative first name?

Answer: Henry

Whilst Holland and Pendlebury are sat on the stairs in their lodgings after a particularly boisterous, alcohol-fuelled party, Pendlebury asks Holland what his first name is to which Holland replies 'Henry...a name I never cared for'; adding afterwards that he would prefer to be addressed by the name Dutch.

6. In the aftermath of the heist, Shorty's and Lackery's courage fails them just as the police start to arrive and they leave without Holland, without roughing him up as they had originally planned. From where do the police rescue Holland after his own attempt to make it seem as if he had been beaten up during the robbery?

Answer: The River Thames

As soon as his cowardly accomplices abandon him, Holland begins to panic. He soon realises that with the police due to arrive, he must make it looks if he has been beaten up as best he can. After rolling on the ground and ripping his own clothes the blindfolded Holland stumbles from the building to which he had been taken and onto a wharf. Holland loses his balance and, still bound and tied, he falls into the river Thames. Fortunately, just as he falls he is spotted by two policemen who promptly dive into the river and save him from drowning.

7. Before the golden souvenir paperweights had been exported to Paris, Pendlebury gave his French distributors strict instructions that, under no circumstances were any crates marked in which manner, were to be opened and their contents offered for sale?

Answer: Any crates stencilled Export R

With Shorty and Lackery rejoining the gang after the robbery, the gang begin the task of smelting and casting the gold into the Eiffel Tower souvenirs. Once completed the golden souvenirs are packed into crates stencilled with the lettering, Export R. Pendlebury assures Holland that he will inform his French agent that these crates are not to be opened.

A few weeks after the robbery Holland and Pendlebury travel to Paris under the pretence of holidaying there. During their holiday they make a visit to the Eiffel tower only to discover that, due to an error in translation the marked crates had been opened and that six of the golden towers had been sold to a party of English schoolgirls who had just left. Both Holland and Pendlebury chase the school party down to the street but fail to catch them; they both realise that they must now return home and retrieve the purchased souvenirs.

8. After their farcical encounter with French customs at Calais, Holland and Pendlebury trace the schoolgirls back to their school in London. In addition to a replacement, worthless, Eiffel tower souvenir, what do they offer as compensation to the schoolgirls for the safe return of each of the golden towers?

Answer: Ten shillings

Holland and Pendlebury arrange a visit to the school with the headmistress; informing the assembled girls that the souvenirs they had purchased were made from a secret and experimental material, they offer each girl a replacement souvenir and ten shillings in cash for the return of their purchase.

Unfortunately, all but one is returned voluntarily and so Holland and Pendlebury are forced to take more direct action to retrieve their ill-gotten gains.

9. To where did Holland and Pendlebury follow the schoolgirl, June Edwards, in their attempt to retrieve the last of the six Eiffel towers; the tower that she had refused to surrender?

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.

10. During the final car chase, the antennas of the damaged police cars and that of the civilian involved, a ruddy-cheeked farmer, are wrapped around each other. As a result which popular, animal related children's song, is heard over the police radio?

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?

Source: Author SisterSeagull

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"You Naughty, Naughty Men"-'The Lavender Hill Mob' Quiz

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