The Ladykillers
by Alexander Mackendrick
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Actor: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Danny Green, Herbert Lom, Peter SellersDirector: Alexander Mackendrick
Cinematographer: Otto Heller
Editor: Jack Harris
Producer: Michael Balcon
Producer: Seth Holt
Writer: Jimmy O'Connor
Writer: William Rose
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of The Ladykillers
Movie Review: Absolutely perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
Very few films achieve perfection but this one comes close to it. Alec Guiness as the leader of a band of dysfunctional robbers, is wonderful. I won't try to summarize the movie, that's been done enough already...but...Guiness rents a flat from a very nice, little old lady and tells her that he and his musician friends will be practicing a lot. In fact they are planning their grand heist.
The little old lady, who is ever so helpful, is constantly butting in to the increasing unhappiness of the gang. Ultimately, our boys decide that they will need to 'rub the old lady out'. Unfortunately, none of them really wants to be the hit man. Nevertheless, a killer is chosen but fails miserably and is ultimately killed himself. Guiness as gang leader grows increasingly neurotic with unbelievable facial ticks. Another killer is chosen but himself dies, leaving the old lady untouched. You've got it. The gang wipes itself out. You see, crime really doesn't pay.
By the way, this film is significantly better than the more recent film starring Tom Hanks of the same name.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Summary of The Ladykillers
A gang planning a job find themselves living with a little old lady who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill mrs wilberforce they run into one problem after another and they get what they deserve. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Alec Guinness Cecil Parker Run time: 91 minutesIn English comedy at its blackest (and funniest) pitch, this droll 1955 farce finds Alec Guinness in one of his typically deft, chameleon turns as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Marcus. When Marcus's grand plan to pull off a train heist leads him to a strategically situated house occupied by the genteel Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), the ensuing masquerade triggers a mordant, even macabre comedy of manners. With Marcus and his rough-hewn cronies (Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green) posing as a string quartet, and the dear lady's demise seen as the means to their larcenous end, the gang's sinister machinations are consistently, if unwittingly, foiled by the good-hearted, resourceful widow. --Sam Sutherland
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