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- BFI identifier35195
- Date1955 (Copyright)
1956-01-02 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA gang of train robbers hide out at the lodgings of one of them, posing as an amateur string quartet. The innocent and upright elderly lady who owns the house is used by them, and is an inadvertent catalyst for their plans unravelling and the gang turning on each other. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Alexander Mackendrick
Production Company: Ealing Studios
A Production by: Michael Balcon
view all - CastAlec Guinness (Professor Marcus)
Cecil Parker (Major Courtney)
Herbert Lom (Louis Harvey)
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Title
The Ladykillers (Original)
The Lady Killers (Help search)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/1C59-EFCF-AAF0-F735-71AB-HCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsLADYKILLERS - H/193 Production file, including Technicolor contract, 1955 H/193a File of artists' contracts, nd H/193b Crossplots, nd - MEB-1610
Music Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-753
Script - Script type: Undated shooting script - SCR-11051
Script - Script type: Annotated shooting script - SCR-11052
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-35195
Medium and small pressbooks held. Music cue sheet held.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single sheet portrait poster - PD-11853
Poster: film - Single sheet portrait poster - PD-11854
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b64
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b63
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b62
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b61
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-b60
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes November 2012
BFI Southbank Programme Notes December 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +The Ladykillers
Work - 35195 - 1955 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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