The Ladykillers

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

1955 / 91min / DCP

One of the best and best-loved films to be produced by Britain’s Ealing Studios, Mackendrick’s delicious black comedy concerns the bumbling machinations of a crew of crooks (including Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and Herbert Lom) as they plan and execute a security van robbery from their rented rooms in a Victorian manor located next to King’s Cross station—only to then run into a most unexpected obstacle in the person of their cheerful old landlady (Katie Johnson). “A grotesque fantasy of murder… A boisterous good time… Extravagantly funny.”—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Introduction from Jason Simos of the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society on Saturday, May 25th and Sunday, May 26th

Part of Euro-Heists