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A classic Ealing comedy in which a little old lady takes in a sinister lodger then finds out he committed a robbery with four friends. When the villains realise she knows all they plot to kill her. But this little lady isn't quite as harmless as she seems...Product Identifiers
EAN7321900381284
eBay Product ID (ePID)30590084
Product Key Features
ActorAlec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Kenneth Connor, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Katie Johnston, Frankie Howerd, Herbert Lom
Film/TV TitleThe Ladykillers
DirectorAlexander Mackendrick
LanguageEnglish
Run Time87 Mins
Release Year2004
FeaturesTrailer
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificateU
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerTristram Cary
Additional InformationTHE LADYKILLERS, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous studio and one of its most celebrated. Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty, toothily threatening Professor Marcus, the leader of a crime ring planning a heist. Marcus rents rooms from a sweet, eccentric old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), in her crooked London house. The professor and his co-conspirators, blowhard Major Courtney (Cecil Parker), creepily suave Louis (Herbert Lom), chubby Harry (Peter Sellers), and muscleman One-Round (Danny Green), pose as an unlikely string quartet using the rooms for rehearsal. Dodging Mrs. Wilberforce's constant interruptions, the hoods hit upon the idea to use her in the daring daylight robbery (filmed in and around London's Kings Cross station). When the old girl discovers the truth, Marcus and company cannot persuade her to stay buttoned up about it and thus decide to do her in.
ReviewsDVD Review - ...Splendidly macabre..., Empire - ...A wicked little laugh riot...
ScreenwriterWilliam Rose
Sound sourceMono
Movie/TV TitleThe Ladykillers