Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 09/10/2002
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence
Distributor/Studio: Anchor Bay
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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