Stars: Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnston, Cecil Parker, Jack Warner, Frankie Howerd, Danny Green, Kenneth Connor

Director: Alexander MacKendrick

Summary: 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...

THE 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.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on April 27, 2006 12:01 PM

In the last great Ealing comedy , Alec Guinness plays the leader of a gang of thieves who fool their dotty landlady into believing they are musicians while they are really planning a robbery . It gave a first major film role to Peter Sellers as one of the gang , but when everything goes wrong , it's the little old lady , a wonderful performance by Katie Johnson , who emerges the winner . A fine cast including Cecil Parker , Herbert Lom , Danny Green , Jack Warner and Frankie Howerd make this very funny film from 1955 a hoot . Directed by Alexander MacKendrick .

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer
Year:	1955
Release Date:	June 21, 2004
Runtime:	87 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 038128
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Ladykillers
Genre:	Comedy