The Ladykillers (1955)

Directed by

Alexander Mackendrick

Genre

heist film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 550 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly widow takes in a group of men posing as amateur musicians. They are actually planning a heist and need her house as a base of operations.

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What happens

The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. William Rose wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. He claimed to have dreamt the entire film and merely had to remember the details when he awoke. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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