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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.

Product Identifiers

ProducerMichael Balcon

EAN5055201827357

eBay Product ID (ePID)11048549823

Product Key Features

ActorAlec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Katie Johnston, Herbert Lom

Film/TV TitleThe Ladykillers

DirectorAlexander Mackendrick

LanguageEnglish

Run Time87 Mins

Release Year2015

FormatBlu-ray

FranchiseEaling

Features60th Anniversary Edition

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Additional InformationMusic 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. It was remade by Joel and Ethan Coen in 2004.

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Ladykillers

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