The Ladykillers (2004)





Professor Dorr and his gang are planning an ambitious robbery and rent some accommodation to act as their base. The men pretend to be a group of rehearsing musicians in order to disguise the enterprise from devout landlady Mrs Munson, but her unwanted attention begins to cause complications.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Ladykillers

Adam Nayman
Coen brothers
New York, NY, 2018
pp. 180-191 info

Hilary White (ed.), Jim Craddock and Michael J. Tyrkus, contributing editors
Magill's Cinema Annual 2005, 24th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 2004
Detroit, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, New Haven, Conn., Waterville, Maine, London, Munich, 2005

Articles on The Ladykillers

Philip Kemp, Satire with tweezers, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2004 pp. 22-26

Dixie Reid, Stealing the Show: Tom hanks and the Coen Brothers Gang Up to Remake The Ladykillers, in: William Rodney Allen (editor), The Coen Brothers, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006

Peter Bradshaw, My Father Lived in Croydon, in: William Rodney Allen (editor), The Coen Brothers, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006

Reviews

Ben Walters, The Ladykillers, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2004 pp. 54


Year: 2004
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0335245