British Comedy Guide

The Hornet's Nest (1955)

Comedy crime caper, but The Ladykillers or say The Lavender Hill Mob it AIN'T!! And why the film is called what it is, is a mystery.

Starring Canadian Paul Carpenter, playing a Canadian this time and not his usual Yank, with the large Alexander Gauge, who played Friar Tuck in the Robin Hood TV series, as the gang boss - his obit:- "Unfortunately, he found little gainful employment thereafter (Robin Hood series) and committed suicide with barbiturates at the age of just 46."

Few familiar faces not worth a mention, except for the pretty June Thorburn, who I have mentioned before: -

"(November 4, 1967) June, who was 5-months-pregnant with her 3rd child & 2nd child with her now widowed 2nd husband Morten Smith-Petersen, was killed in a plane crash at the age of 36, while returning to London from Spain on Iberia Airlines Flight 062 when it crashed at Blackdown, Sussex, killing all 37 people onboard."

Such a waste of two lives.

However, thankfully the film was short as I found it mediocre.

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