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THE LAVENDER HILL MOB 45
60 Long Shot Warehouse. The camera is inside the dark passage leading into the warehouse. The Bullion Van can be seen as it hurtles down the hill opposite. The van makes for the entrance and disappears in the darkness.
61 Shooting down the passage from the clear space in the middle of the warehouse. The Bullion Van thunders towards camera and sivings round into the open space. It pulls up next to the delivery van from Gewgaws Ltd which is already there, its back open and ready to receive its cargo.
62 Shorty, still wearing the driver's cap, jumps from the cab and runs to the back of the van. The camera pans with him until it holds in the background the passage leading to the river. Shorty prises open the door of the van with a jemmy which he produces from his trouser leg. Holland climbs down and the two begin the job of transferring the gold bars to the Gewgaws van.
shorty {staggering under a load of two bars) : Cor, what
a weight ! Holland: The others ought to be here any minute.
63 Medium Shot Information Room, Scotland Yard. The Inspectors are standing at a huge table-map on which round black discs represent the positions of police wireless cars.
first inspector: 14 reports they wrere seen making
towards the river. second inspector: Then we'd best bring in I3 and U5 to cordon the area. Pan down to the map as he puts metal rings round the discs thus marked.
first inspector: I'll get reserves out from ID and UH.
64 Medium Shot Warehouse. An angle looking across the back of the two vans into the passage leading to the river. Holland and