FILM · Comedy

The Ladykillers

Name: The Ladykillers
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1955

1955 · 1h 31m · ★ 7.3 · U

A gang of crooks rents a room from a tiny, oblivious old widow and is slowly undone by her gentility. The last great Ealing comedy, and the cruellest — a pitch-black fable about a postwar England too polite to notice it’s being robbed.

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Cast & Crew

Alec Guinness

Professor Marcus

4 films

Cecil Parker

as Claude, alias Major Courtney

Herbert Lom

as Louis, alias Mr. Harvey

Peter Sellers

as Harry, alias Mr. Robinson

Danny Green

as One-Round, alias Mr. Lawson

Details

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1955
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 31m