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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
Unaware of her reputation, the dapper thief Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) rents rooms in the elderly widow's home for himself and his band of cohorts....
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- Alec Guinness
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Comedy
Oct 21, 2023 · "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.
- 87 min
- 1072
- sdix0
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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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Nov 13, 2002 · A gang of thieves, headed by Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness), takes two rooms at a boardinghouse run by the eccentric Mrs. Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). Here they pretend to be a practicing string quartet as a cover for their true intention -- a security van robbery.
