The Ladykillers
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 3, 2021
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alec Guinness & Peter Sellers | |
Performer: | Katie Johnson, Jack Warner, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Frankie Howerd & Danny Green | |
Directed by | Alexander Mackendrick | |
Screenwriting by | William Rose |
Entertainment Reviews:
Director Alexander Mackendrick ... reached a masterful apex of sorts with this wickedly hilarious movie's precise balance of situational comedy and stark murderous callousness.
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DVDJournal.com
Rating: 4.5/5 --
The architecture of the film - and buildings and angles are an integral part of why it works so well - rests upon the twin pillars of Katie Johnson and Alec Guinness.
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Eye for Film
Rating: B --
Most of the slapstick set pieces warrant a polite smile rather than a hearty guffaw.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 4/5 --
Ridiculously funny dark comedy. Guinness is having way too much fun.
Needcoffee.com
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the great Ealing comedies of the 1950s.
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Times (UK)
Alec Guinness is somewhat less believable than usual in this fast and ruthless British crime comedy. But Katie Johnson is nothing short of perfect as a prim old widow whose gentility terrifies the gang.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: A- --
Delightfully foolish.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
THE LADYKILLERS, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick's WHISKEY GALORE!). 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 King's 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. Accompanied by a noirish cacophony of screeching trains, parrots, and little old ladies at afternoon tea, a series of unlikely events builds to the hilarious, surprising finale.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 13,783
- UPC: 887936862144
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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