Old Macdonald Had a Farm – Jeremy C. Processing https://jeremycprocessing.com experience it, process it Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:38:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://jeremycprocessing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-2019-07-24-pic-by-Lowell-cropped-32x32.jpg Old Macdonald Had a Farm – Jeremy C. Processing https://jeremycprocessing.com 32 32 The Lavender Hill Mob https://jeremycprocessing.com/the-lavender-hill-mob/ https://jeremycprocessing.com/the-lavender-hill-mob/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:46:23 +0000 http://jeremycprocessing.com/?p=14716 Director – Charles Crichton – 1951 – UK – Cert. U – 78m

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A Bank of England employee stumbles upon the perfect means to rob his employer of the gold bullion he transports there on a daily basis– classic Ealing comedy is back out in a new 4k restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, March 29th

Holland (Alec Guinness) has a lowly job at the Bank of England supervising the transfer of recently minted bars of gold bullion to the bank’s secure vault by security van., He rides in the back and is forever asking the harried driver to check round the corner for suspected cars lying in wait to ambush the van. He is considered an honest nobody, an appearance he has cultivated for the best part of two decades. He has a mind to rob the van, if only he could work out how to smuggle the bullion out of the country.

Fate intervenes in the form of a newly arrived tenant at the downmarket Balmoral Guest House in Lavender Hill, where he lodges. Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) runs a business selling tourist tat, including lead models of the Eiffel Tour for selling at that Parisian monument. He melts the lead down on his London premises to cast it into the models.… Read the rest

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A Bank of England employee stumbles upon the perfect means to rob his employer of the gold bullion he transports there on a daily basis– classic Ealing comedy is back out in a new 4k restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, March 29th

Holland (Alec Guinness) has a lowly job at the Bank of England supervising the transfer of recently minted bars of gold bullion to the bank’s secure vault by security van., He rides in the back and is forever asking the harried driver to check round the corner for suspected cars lying in wait to ambush the van. He is considered an honest nobody, an appearance he has cultivated for the best part of two decades. He has a mind to rob the van, if only he could work out how to smuggle the bullion out of the country.

Fate intervenes in the form of a newly arrived tenant at the downmarket Balmoral Guest House in Lavender Hill, where he lodges. Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) runs a business selling tourist tat, including lead models of the Eiffel Tour for selling at that Parisian monument. He melts the lead down on his London premises to cast it into the models.… Read the rest

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