Featuring: 1. The Big Job (1965) 2. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 3. Make Mine A Million (1959)
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Sid James triple. In 'The Big Job' (1965), a gang of hapless crooks successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover that a police station has been built over its hiding place. Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Jim Dale and Joan Sims co-star. In 'Make Mine a Milluion' (1959), an ad-man teams up with a make-up artist in a cunning plot to advertise Bonko detergent on non-commercial television. Despite the trouble it causes, the plan proves a great success and the two chaps soon set up a pirate television station with the intention of beaming their advertisements into other company's TV shows. Again the idea proves successful - but just how long can these two go on avoiding their come-uppance? 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951) is a classic Ealing comedy. Nobody would ever suspect gold bullion delivery man Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) of anything other than total devotion to his job. However, with the aid of fellow lodger Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), he gathers together a gang to carry out 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. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey Hepburn.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Sid James, of Carry On fame and the possessor of the dirtiest laugh in movie history, gets the Comic Icons Collection treatment. The Big Job stars James as George the Brain, leader of a gang of inept bank robbers who end up in prison for 15 years, with only the thought of the stolen money that remains hidden keeping them going until their release. However, when the time comes, it seems the tasking of recovering the loot won't be as easy as first hoped - the hollow tree that they hid it in once stood in a lonely lane. Now this lane is the backyard of a Police Station... Make Mine A Million stars Sid James as Sid Gibson, a washing detergent salesman, who decides to call on the help of his friend TV make-up artist Arthur (Arthur Askey) in order to obtain some much needed TV advertising time. Arthur slips a plug for Sid's suds into a primetime live TV extravaganza - causing a nationwide uproar and soaring sales for Sid - but costing Arthur his job. In order to feed demand, Sid decides to set up the world's first pirate TV station with Arthur's help. They plan to interrupt national broadcasting without warning or permission and no show, from the Ascot races to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, is safe... The Lavender Hill Mob needs little introduction as one of Ealing Studio's finest British comedies. Sid James plays a professional criminal named Lackery, one of two hired by shy, retiring bank transfer agent Holland (Alec Guiness) to help him carry out the perfect crime... Holland (Alec Guiness) has for years dreamed of being rich and living the good life but instead faithfully and for 20 years, he has overseen the deliveries of gold bullion. Fate has recently bought him into contact with Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
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