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Box set featuring four classic Ealing comedies starring Alec Guinness. In 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951) gold bullion delivery man Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) gathers together a gang and puts together the plans for a heist, intending to smuggle the gold out of the country by melting it down into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. All goes well until the consignment of models becomes muddled up with another, non-golden batch. In 'The Man in the White Suit' (1951) Sidney Stratton (Guinness again), a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory, invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that, if it never wears out and never gets dirty, people will never have to buy any new clothing. In 'The Ladykillers' (1955) landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) believes her new lodger, Professor Marcus (Guinness), and his associates to be amateur musicians. Ho

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