La tour d'or

The Lavender Hill Mob

(1951)

Fabulously fluffy heist flick starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and flashing a five-second cameo in the first four minutes of a dazzling young face, but I'm not gonna tell you whose.

It's an ultratight 81 minutes, but in the end you rather wish they'd given you another 10 or so and at least addressed one element of the plot (the film's and the heist's) that gets dropped altogether. And the surprise ending isn't really.