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The Coens produced the remake with Tom Jacobson, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Barry Josephson. It stars Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J. K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst, and marks the only time the Coens have worked with Tom Hanks so far and the first remake by the Coens. [4]
Mar 27, 2024 · There’s a reason why he’s ‘Sir’ Alec Guinness,” explained the actor. The film frames the Professor as a charlatan from the start: Through his melodiously affectatious accent—Hanks tightens the corners of his lips to achieve the intonation—he explains that he teaches at the University of Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Mar 27, 2004 · NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell about the Coen brothers' remake of the comic 1955 film The Ladykillers. The original version starred Alec Guiness and...
Prior to filming, Tom Hanks had not seen The Ladykillers (1955), as he did not want it to prejudice the way he acted in the remake.
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- Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2004-03-26
Sep 22, 2014 · Both movies concern a professorial mastermind (Alec Guinness in the original, Hanks in the remake) who wheedles his way into the home of a prim landlady in order to commit a robbery with the help...
- Christopher Orr
The original “Ladykillers” was one of a group of small, inspired comedies made at the low-rent Ealing Studios near London, where Guinness was the resident genius; his other titles from the period include “Kind Hearts and Coronets” (1949), “The Lavender Hill Mob” (1950) and “The Man in the White Suit” (1951). These were self ...
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The Ladykillers (1955) was remade by The Coen Brothers in 2004, changing the base of operations to a house connected to a Mississippi riverboat's vault, and including a significant subplot about the old (now) black lady's ironic support of Bob Jones University.
