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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
Alexander Mackendrick's British crime black comedy The Ladykillers (1955) is the most proper English spoof on a crime caper you can imagine.
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- Alec Guinness
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Comedy
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.
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. William Rose. Screenplay, Story.
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.
A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots.
