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Running time. 91 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. 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.
Oct 23, 2020 · Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers (1955) marked the end of an era in more ways than one. It wasn’t only the last of the great Ealing comedies, but was the last film to be released by Ealing before the studios were sold to the BBC and Michael Balcon led his depleted team away to live out a sad, ghostly afterlife in a corner of the MGM lot at Borehamwood.
Nov 4, 2020 · ‘The Ladykillers’, released in 1955, is one of the truly great London movies. Its location is integral to the story. Just like the depiction of W11’s grotty bohemia in Donald Cammell and Nic ...
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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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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Mar 10, 2023 · By pitting a set of modern British stock-characters against an impossible embodiment of the Victorian ethos (the character of Mrs. Wilberforce and her house), The Ladykillers both allegorically and metafictionally underlies the contradictions inherent to neo-Victorian comedy. On the one hand, it stages the comic objectification of the Victorian subject, which creates a sense of superiority on ...
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Sep 27, 2020 · Alexander Mackendrick’s 1955 The Ladykillers, not that dreadful 2004 remake, is arguably one of the greatest comedic heist capers of all time. The film, with a quintessentially British feel ...
