Alec Guinness received his first Academy Award nomination for the role of a meek bank teller who teams up with seedy neighbor Stanley Holloway to steal gold bullion and smuggle it out of the country as Eiffel Tower paperweights. Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for this enduring comedy from Ealing Studios. (UK 1951) 78 min.
Alec Guinness received his first Academy Award nomination for the role of a meek bank teller who teams up with seedy neighbor Stanley Holloway to steal gold bullion and smuggle it out of the country as Eiffel Tower paperweights. Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for this enduring comedy from Ealing Studios. (UK 1951) 78 min.
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