Ealing, with Teeth

Ealing made its name on gentle comedies about decent people. These three are the other kind: a poisoner with lovely manners, a bank clerk who robs his own bank, and five crooks undone by an old lady.

1. 1
   Kind Hearts and Coronets

   1949 · Comedy · 1h 46m

   Dennis Price murders his way through a family of Alec Guinnesses on his polite route to a dukedom.

2. 2
   The Lavender Hill Mob

   1951 · Comedy · 1h 21m

   A timid bank clerk steals the gold he escorts and smuggles it out as Eiffel Tower paperweights.

3. 3
   The Ladykillers

   1955 · Comedy · 1h 31m

   Five crooks posing as a string quintet can’t bring themselves to kill their landlady. She outlasts them all.