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The Ladykillers (1955)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Comedy, Suspense/Thriller |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1955 |
| Running time: | 97 minutes |
| Cast: | Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green |
| Director: | Alexander Mackendrick |
| Writer: | William Rose |
Description: Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punchdrunk Danny Green. The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring 60,000 pound robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her. The Ladykillers won an Oscar nomination for William Rose's screenplay, and a BFA award for veteran character actress Johnson.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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