The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) -- C. Crichton

If you haven't seen any of the comedies that Sir Alec Guinness made at Ealing Studios in the 1950's, then I highly recommend that you do.  The Lavender Hill Mob is a heist film like no other, in which mild-mannered bullion office clerk Guinness masterminds a scheme to get the gold out of the country.  Charles Crichton directs this so as to raise the tension and also to release the wackiness.  Even after watching this many times over the years, I still chortled. See also The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit, and Kind Hearts & Coronets.