The Lavender Hill Mob review " Ealing's golden comedy loses its lustre
Everyman theatre, Cheltenham This adaptation of the postwar caper has its moments but lacks the adroit humour and tautness of the film Ealing Studios' 1951 comedy of bowler-hatted banking and congenial criminality has been newly minted for the stage. But Jeremy Sams' jovial touring production is often curiously leaden. While the film was a model of taut storytelling, with a slyly humorous portrait of postwar Britain …