The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness: DVD Cover
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The Ladykillers Director: Alexander MacKendrick Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/10/2002
  • Original Release: 1955
  • Rating: Not Rated

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Alec Guiness Bio; Theatrical Trailer

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Side #1 --
1. Program Start/Main Titles [1:47]
2. Mrs. Wilberforce [3:23]
3. The Mysterious Professor Marcus [5:06]
4. The Gang's All Here [4:02]
5. A Spot of Tea [3:48]
6. Bloody Nuisance [7:12]
7. The Heist [4:00]
8. All Aboard [2:58]
9. Pulling the Strings [2:46]
10. Horse and Buggy [3:01]
11. The Waiting Game [3:42]
12. Fond Farewells [3:29]
13. Suspicion [6:05]
14. Command Performance [5:11]
15. A Visit From the Police [3:51]
16. The Ladykillers [3:53]
17. A Spark of Decency [4:21]
18. Rooftop Accident [2:44]
19. Alliances [3:18]
20. Double-Cross [3:33]
21. Another Black Mark [2:44]
22. "Who Looks Stupid Now?" [2:45]
23. And Then There Were None [3:39]
24. Mrs. Wilberforce's Windfall [3:04]

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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. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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February 09, 2005: The twists in this crime story are exactly what make it a comedy. This comedy is not as subtle as other British comedies of the era, but that just might make it more appealing to a larger audience. Even if you're not an Alec Guinness fan, you would enjoy this movie because it's the naivete of the little old lady that makes it resonate.