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The Ladykillers(Movie, 1955)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Genres: Comedy, Crime
The LadykillersRating: 3.6/5 (with 194194 votes)
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. William Rose wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. He claimed to have dreamt the entire film and merely had to remember the details when he awoke. In the film, a lonely widow rents rooms to a gang leader and his crew. While preparing a heist, the gang me... ()
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Available languages: German, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 30min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: German, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 30min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 1h 27min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

Awards & Nominations for The Ladykillers

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

About The Ladykillers

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: London
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/25/1957 (World premiere: 12/08/1955)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"老妇杀手团"
"贼博士"
"El quinteto de la muerte"
"Tueurs de dames"
"Η συμμορία των 5"
"El Quinteto de la Muerte"

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