The Ladykillers (1955)




Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green - The Ladykillers

Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Katie Johnson, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Cecil Parker - The Ladykillers

Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, Peter Sellers, Danny Green - The Ladykillers


The Ladykillers




Meet "The Unholy Five"...The Most Befuddled Set of Assorted Thugs That Ever Fouled Up a Million Dollar Bank Robbery!! A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members of an amateur string quintet and would like to use the rooms to hone their musical skills. In reality, they are plotting to rob a bank and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce's naiveté and her Victorian sensibilities to their advantage.


Film programs

Progress Filmillustrierte/Filmprogramm nr. 78/62
Das neue Filmprogramm

Books with substantial mentioning of The Ladykillers

Robert Murphy (ed.)
The British Cinema Book
London, 2009

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Michael Starr
Peter Sellers, A Film History
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Anthony Slide
Fifty Classic British Films Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record
New York, 1985

Jerry Vermilye
The Great British Films
Secaucus, N.J., 1978

Books with an entry on The Ladykillers

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973

Articles on The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers, Classic scene, in: Empire, nr. 277 (July), 2012 pp. 170

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Ladykillers

Mark Duguid, The dark side of Ealing, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 11 (November), 2012 pp. 54-61



Year: 1955
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0048281