Rugby Theatre will be one of the first amateur companies to stage classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers. A brilliantly funny stage version of a classic 1955 Ealing comedy opens tomorrow for a ...

"Give the parrot his medicine." Studiocanal has unveiled a new trailer for the 4K restoration and re-release of The Ladykillers, celebrating the film's 65th anniversary. This "flawless" black comedy ...

An ensemble piece, not a star vehicle: the villainous quintet and the object of their obsession in 'The Ladykillers'Manuel Harlan Linehan respects the film but isn’t about to be intimidated by it: ...

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, ...

As a new stage play version of The Ladykillers prepares to open, we look at William Rose's original screenplay, an 'ironic joke' about the decline of Britain. By Martin Chilton 01 November 2011 • ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

Can Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, the Coen brothers and Disney’s Touchstone match the magic spun in the ’50s by those late, lamented comic geniuses Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers — along with a ...

As a film, The Ladykillers confirms and challenges much of the 'Ealing-esque' character identified in several of these blog posts: conformity and community are here, black comedy is woven throughout, ...

The original incarnation of The Ladykillers came to American writer William Rose in a dream. Rose simply recalled the entire plot from memory when writing the script, which won a BAFTA for Best ...