Ladykillers Blu Ray

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play The Ladykillers director Alexander Mackendrick&s third Ealing farce is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio & one of its most celebrated Like the equally applauded Kind Hearts & Coronets the film is more sophisticated & blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick&s Whiskey Galore!) Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty toothily threatening Professor Marcus the leader of a crime ring planning a heist Marcus rents rooms from a sweet eccentric old lady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) in her crooked London house The professor & his co-conspirators blowhard Major Courtney (Cecil Parker) creepily suave Louis (Herbert Lom) chubby Harry (Peter Sellers) & muscleman One-Round (Danny Green) pose as an unlikely string quartet using the rooms for rehearsal Dodging Mrs Wilberforce&s constant interruptions the hoods hit upon the idea to use her in the daring daylight robbery (filmed in & around London&s King&s Cross station) When the old girl discovers the truth Marcus & company cannot persuade her to stay buttoned up about it & thus decide to do her in Accompanied by a noirish cacophony of screeching trains parrots & little old ladies at afternoon tea a series of unlikely events builds to the hilarious surprising finale Actors Alec Guinness Cecil Parker Herbert Lom Peter Sellers Danny Green Katie Johnson Jack Warner Philip Stainton Frankie Howerd Fred Griffiths & Kenneth Connor Director Alexander Mackendrick Certificate PGYear 1955 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)