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- The Ladykillers is a 2004 American black comedy crime thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness , Cecil Parker , Herbert Lom , Peter Sellers , Danny Green , Jack Warner , and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce.
The Ladykillers: Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers. Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1956-02-03
Oct 23, 2020 · Satire with tweezers: Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers. In this piece from our July 2004 issue, Philip Kemp revisits Ealing Studios’ classic 1955 comedy The Ladykillers, and finds in it a wickedly satirical satire about an England in terminal decline.
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The Ladykillers, British dark comedy film, released in 1955, that is considered one of the best comedies produced by the historic Ealing Studios.
Alec Guinness played Professor Marcus, the head of a motley band of criminals who use the rented rooms of an old woman’s boarding house as the base for a bank robbery. Although their scheme succeeds, they are endangered by the bothersome habits of their eccentric landlady (played by Katie Johnson), who frequently goes to the police station to report her trumped-up suspicions about various happenings in her neighbourhood. When she catches wind of the robbery and threatens to report it, the crooks reluctantly decide they have to kill her. However, when no one will commit the crime, the men turn on each other, with hilariously disastrous results.
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•Studio: Ealing Studios
•Director: Alexander Mackendrick
•Writer: William Rose
•Music: Tristram Cary
•Alec Guinness (Professor Marcus)
•Cecil Parker (Claude)
•Herbert Lom (Louis)
•Peter Sellers (Harry)
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The Ladykillers: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons. An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.
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- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2004-03-26
Nov 4, 2020 · Alec Guinness’s gang leader in a prop phone box on Vernon Rise, WC1. The film’s plot was the brainchild of William Rose, an American-born screenwriter, and involves five oddball criminals who pull...
The Ladykillers is an excellent example of the prestigious and beloved studio firing on all cylinders with well-written dialogue and a succession of metaphors for the state of the British isles after WWII.
