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The Ladykillers
(1955)
Meet "The Unholy Five"...The Most Befuddled Set of Assorted Thugs That Ever Fouled Up a Million Dollar Bank Robbery!!
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Stars: Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnston, Cecil Parker
Director: Alexander MacKendrick
Writer: William Rose
Language: English
Studio: Studio Canal
Duration: 87
DVD Release: June 2004

Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punchdrunk Danny Green. The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring 60,000 pound robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her. The Ladykillers won an Oscar nomination for William Rose's screenplay, and a BFA award for veteran character actress Johnson.


Alec GuinnessProfessor Marcus
Herbert LomLouis (a.k.a. 'Mr. Harvey')
Peter SellersHarry (a.k.a. 'Mr. Robinson')
Cecil ParkerClaude (a.k.a. 'Major Courtney')
Katie JohnsonThe Old Lady
Danny GreenOne-Round (a.k.a. 'Mr. Lawson')
Jack WarnerThe Superintendent
Philip StaintonThe Sergeant
Frankie HowerdThe Barrow Boy
Otto HellerCinematographer
Jack HarrisEditor
Tristram CaryComposer
Jim MorahanArt Director
Genre: Comedy
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
IMDb: 0048281