THE LAVENDER HILL MOB

New Restoration

(1951, Charles Crichton) Seedy hustler Stanley Holloway gets the gist of fastidious bank clerk Alec Guinness’ scheme: conceal gold bullion in tacky Eiffel Tower souvenirs. Smash hit Ealing comedy won an Oscar for scripter T.E.B. Clarke and a Best Actor nomination for Guinness. Approx. 82 min. DCP.
12:40, 4:10, 7:50
Also screens as a single feature on Monday, June 30

“Inventive, economic, masterly... one of the most glorious gems in the Ealing crown.”
– Phillip French, The Observer

“Both a joyous comedy and a tense thriller. Indeed, its climactic car-chase sequence is easily as dramatic as any of those found in today's summer blockbusters.”
– Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph

THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT

New Restoration

(1951, Alexander Mackendrick) Ordinary but obsessed scientist Guinness invents a fabric that never wears out and never gets dirty, but then must contend with planned-obsolescence-loving Labor & Capital and the sexily low notes of Joan Greenwood — but nature provides its own climax. Approx. 85 min. DCP.
2:20, 6:00, 9:45

“The Ealing comedies didn’t come much better.”
– Dave Kehr

“A BRILLIANT SATIRICAL COMEDY! Mackendrick directs with a controlled bravado rare in the British cinema, achieving small throwaway miracles of timing, underlining nuances of comedy acting, and carefully building climactic scenes in the Eisenstein approved manner.”

– Leslie Halliwell



"THE FUNNIEST OF THE GREAT FIFTIES EALING STUDIO COMEDIES! [In] a new restoration—the better to savor that phosphorescent suit, Joan Greenwood's purr, and the blend of crisp British diction and Mackendrick's heathery Scottish timing."

– David Edelstein, New York magazine