Apr 18, 2011  The plot may be a little thin, but it's a good enough premise to keep you watching. What shines in this film is the dialog and the acting. The opening scene of the film, of an old woman going to the local police department, not to complain about the loud music of a local kid's boom box, but to ask the sheriff to help the kid, is just hilarious.

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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. A Coen brothers' remake of the Ealing Studios' 1955 black comedy with Alec Guinness: A group of men (led by Tom Hanks) plot to rob a casino, but must first ingratiate themselves with an elderly woman whose basement wall is the portal to the treasure. Apr 18, 2011 Tom Hanks (the Professor) and Irma Hall (Mrs. Munson) together, not apart, make this film. When the professor and the old black woman talk, speak, converse! With each other, he in his elevated educated idiom and she in her down-to-earth honest well-behaved talk, we are witnessing magic. The Ladykillers is a 2004 American black comedy thriller film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The Coens' screenplay was based on the 1955 British Ealing comedy film of the same name, written by William Rose. The Coens produced the remake (their first), together with Tom Jacobson, Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry Josephson. The Ladykillers (2004) Watch Full Movie on Flixtor, An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a. Sep 10, 2019  The Coens' worst film by some distance, and their only truly bad film. The original 1955 version with Alec Guinness ranks very, very high in the pantheon of cinematic black comedies, and this loose remake is so far removed from the earlier film in class and wit that I'm not even gonna bother comparing them.

The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedycrime 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.^[1]William Rose wrote the screenplay,^[1] 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.

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Plot[edit]

Mrs Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding lopsided house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatsoever.

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She is approached by an archly sinister character, 'Professor' Marcus, who wants to rent rooms in her house. She is not aware that he has assembled a gang of hardened criminals for a sophisticated security van robbery at London King's Cross railway station: the gentlemanly and easily fooled con-man Major Claude Courtney; the comedic Cockneyspiv Harry Robinson; the slow-witted and punch drunk ex-boxer 'One-Round' Lawson; and the murderous, cruel and vicious continental gangster Louis Harvey. As a cover, the 'Professor' convinces the naive Mrs. Wilberforce that the group is an amateur string quintet using the rooms for rehearsal space. To maintain the deception, the gang members carry musical instruments and play recordings of Boccherini's Minuet (3rd movement) from String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5 and Haydn's - Serenade for Strings Op. 3 No. 5 (the 'Serenade,' actually composed by Roman Hoffstetter) during their planning sessions.

After the heist, 'Mrs. W' is deceived into retrieving the disguised money from the railway station herself. This she successfully manages to do but not without serious complications owing to her tendency to righteous meddling. As the gang departs her house with the loot, 'One-Round' accidentally gets his cello case full of banknotes trapped in the front door. As he pulls the case free, banknotes spill forth while Mrs. Wilberforce looks on. Finally, smelling a rat, she informs Marcus that she is going to the police.

Stalling, the gangsters half convince Mrs. W that she will surely be considered an accomplice for holding the cash. In any case, they assert, it is a victimless crime as insurance will cover all the losses and the police will probably not even accept the money back. She wavers but when she rallies the criminals finally decide they must kill her. No one wants to do it so they draw lots using matchsticks. The Major loses but tries to make a run for it with the cash. As the oblivious Mrs. W dozes, the criminals cross, double-cross and manage to kill one another in rapid succession. The Major falls off the roof of the house after being chased by Louis; Harry is killed by One-Round who thinks Harry has killed Mrs. W after having a change of heart; One-Round tries to shoot Louis and Marcus when he overhears a plan to double-cross him but leaves the gun's safety catch on and is himself killed by Louis; Marcus kills Louis by dislodging his ladder under the tunnel behind the house, causing Louis to fall into a passing railway wagon. Before falling into the carriage Louis fires a last shot at Marcus which nearly hits him. Finally, with no one else left, Marcus himself is struck on the head by a changing railway signal, and his body drops into another wagon. All the other bodies have been dumped into railway wagons passing behind the house and are now far away.

Mrs. Wilberforce is now left alone with the plunder. She goes to the police to return it but they do not believe her story. They humour her, telling her to keep the money. She is puzzled but finally relents and returns home. Along the way, she leaves a banknote of large denomination with a startled starving artist.

Cast[edit]

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• Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus
• Cecil Parker as Major Claude Courtney
• Herbert Lom as Louis Harvey
• Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson
• Danny Green as 'One-Round' Lawson
• Jack Warner as the superintendent
• Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
• Philip Stainton as the sergeant
• Frankie Howerd as the barrow boy
• Kenneth Connor as a taxi driver.

Guinness seems to have based his performance of Professor Marcus on the actor Alastair Sim, for whom the part was originally intended. Robinson was the first major film role for Peter Sellers; he would later appear with Lom in some of The Pink Panther films.^[2]

Production[edit]

The film poster was by Reginald Mount.^[3]

Locations[edit]

Mrs. Wilberforce's house, No. 57, was a set built at the western end of Frederica Street, in Barnsbury, North London. In the 1970s a new housing estate was built in that area. The closest point to the location of Mrs. Wilberforce's house is now at the southern end of Conistone Way. It was directly above the southern portal of Copenhagen Tunnel on the railway line leading out of King's Cross railway station. However, the views from her house are actually of Argyle Street, some distance away, with the tower of St Pancras railway station in the background. The scene of the security truck turning into King's Cross used the route from Goods Way, passing gas holders, turning left into Battle Bridge Road and right into Cheney Road. Goods Way was realigned northwards as a part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link works and the gas holders were removed. A short length of Battle Bridge Road survives, but Cheney Road was largely removed to accommodate a realignment of Pancras Road that was originally to run to the east of the German Gymnasium, but now runs between St Pancras railway station and the German Gymnasium. The Jesmond Dene Hotel on the corner of St.Chad Street and Argyle Street still exists and carries the same name.

Awards and nominations[edit]

Wins[edit]

• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role - Katie Johnson
• BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay - William Rose

Nominations[edit]

• Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - William Rose

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

According to the National Film Finance Corporation, the film made a comfortable profit.^[4]

Critical response[edit]

The film holds a rare 100% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.6/10. The site's consensus reads: 'The Ladykillers is a macabre slow-burn with quirky performances of even quirkier characters'.^[5] The British Film Institute ranked The Ladykillers the 13th greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 29th best British film ever.^[6]

Reputation[edit]

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In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Ladykillers the 36th greatest comedy film of all time, and The Guardian labelled it the 5th greatest comedy of all time in 2010.

Adaptations[edit]

• In 1966 the film was adapted into an opera by the Czech composer Ilja Hurník under the name The Lady and the Robbers (Dáma a lupiči).
• A radio adaptation of the film, by Bruce Bedford, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 January 1996 starring Edward Petherbridge and Margot Boyd.^[7]
• In 2004 the Coen Brothers directed an American remake of the film, starring Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J. K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst. The setting of the film is moved from London to Saucier, Mississippi, home of a riverboat casino.^[8]
• In 2011 the film was adapted as a play by Graham Linehan. It premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in November that year before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre in London with Peter Capaldi as Professor Marcus.^[9][10]
• The play was revived at the London Vaudeville Theatre^[11] in 2013 and subsequently toured around the UK and Ireland.^[12] This revived production featured a new cast. ^[13]
• The play had its North American premiere at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada in June 2019 with Damien Atkins as Professor Marcus and Chick Reid as Mrs. Wilberforce. ^[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'The Ladykillers 1955'. Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved 11 July 2016.
2. ^'screenonline.org.uk, part of the British Film Institute (BFI)'. Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
3. ^'Reginald Mount'. The Art of War. The National Archives. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
4. ^U.S. MONEY BEHIND 30% OF BRITISH FILMS: Problems for the Board of Trade: The Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1956. p. 7.
5. ^[1]. 'The Ladykillers (1955): Rotten Tomatoes'. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
6. ^'The 100 best British films'. Time Out. Retrieved 24 October 2017
7. ^'BBC radio programmes catalogue entry'. BBC. 26 November 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
8. ^'The Ladykillers 2004'. Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved 11 July 2016.
9. ^Graham Linehan. 'How Graham Linehan dynamited The Ladykillers'. Guardian. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
10. ^'Play details on Gielgud Theatre site'. London-theatreland.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
11. ^'Vaudeville Theatre'. Vaudeville Theatre. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
12. ^'» Latest News'. Theladykillers.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
13. ^'The Ladykillers Review - Best of Theatre News'. Bestoftheatre.co.uk. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
14. ^https://www.shawfest.com/playbill/the-ladykillers/

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External links[edit]

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