The Ladykillers

Certificate: U
Running Time: 94 Mins
Retail Price: £24.99
Release Date: 15/02/2010
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
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.

Special Features:
Filmed interviews with: Allan Scott, Terence Davies and Ronald Harwood
Audio Commentary with Philip Kemp: Mackendrick/Ladykillers expert
Interview with James Mangold
Forever Ealing Documentary
Introduction to The LadyKillers by Terry Gilliam
HD Trailer

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