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| General Film Distributors (GFD) | Release Date: October 15, 1951 |
Starring:
Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Arthur Hambling, Edie Martin, Gibb McLaughlin, John Salew, Marjorie Fielding, Ronald Adam, Sidney James, Stanley Holloway
Summary:
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Charles Crichton's classic crime spoof remains one of Ealing Studios' most successful films. [25 May 2013, p.36]
It's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, and not quite matching their elegant perfection; I've never been able to rid myself of the feeling that, however superbly set up, the aftermath of the heist itself is ever so slightly lacking in tension.
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