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32 THE CINEMA
As so often happens when a screen-writer eventually sees what an accomplished director has made of his script, I watched the ' rushes ' of this scene wishing profoundly that I had thought of something like that during the writing of it.
But for this new departure in revealing my original script to the public gaze, I have no doubt that I should have been able to persuade myself by now that I really did invent that very effective heap of sand!
Extract from the Shooting Script of THE LAVENDER HILL MOB*
THE ROBBERY
Fade In : i Interior Medium Shot Warehouse. With Lackery as his guide, Holland is inspecting a derelict warehouse which backs on to the Thames. Incendiaries long ago reduced the place to a blackened shell. Lackery stands close to camera surveying the ruins. Holland is behind him watching his reactions.
lackery: Terrible thing, war. Two million cigarettes, all up in smoke and the country so short at the time you could flog 'em for a dollar a packet. Holland : Still, it's an ill wind ... I've had the place in mind ever since. He turns and moves towards an opening in the background. Lackery follows him. Holland : There's plenty of cover for both the vans, and it's near enough for Shorty to get here quickly on his bicycle.
* Producer: Sir Michael Balcon for Ealing Studios. Associate Producer: Michael Truman. Director: Charles Crichton. Script: T. E. B. Clarke. Director of Photography: Douglas Slocombe. Art Director: William Kellner. Editor: Seth Holt. Music: Georges Auric. Leading Players : Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway.