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"Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in a rickety Victorian house near
London’s King’s Cross railway station. She rents a room to Professor Marcus
(Alec Guinness), who claims to be a musician, and asks to use the room for
practice sessions with his string quintet.
But wait. Professor Marcus and his four associates are in fact plotting an
armed robbery and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce in their dastardly scheme.
What a pleasure it is to revisit
The Ladykillers (1955) – a jet-black,
peculiarly subversive marriage of genteel English manners and anarchic
criminality.
With its cast of eccentrics, dry wit and distinctively British whimsy, this
film from London-based Ealing Studios perfectly zig-zags between kind-hearted
and creepy. And 70 years on, it is fondly remembered as the closing flourish of
the golden age of Ealing comedies."
Via Joyce Donahue, who wrote "Ha! This is on my list of GOAT movies!"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
