The Ladykillers DVD 1955 Betörő az albérlőm / Directed by Alexander Mackendrick / Starring: Alec Guiness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers

UPC 5999554700731

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

Audio: English 5.1, French 5.1

Subtitle: French, Hungarian

Runtime: 91 minutes

English Summary:

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.

Mrs Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding lopsided house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatsoever.

She is approached by an archly sinister character, 'Professor' Marcus, who wants to rent rooms in her house. She is not aware that he has assembled a gang of hardened criminals for a sophisticated security van robbery at London King's Cross railway station: the gentlemanly and easily fooled con-man Major Claude Courtney; the comedic Cockney spiv Harry Robinson; the slow-witted and punch drunk ex-boxer 'One-Round' Lawson; and the murderous, cruel and vicious continental gangster Louis Harvey. As a cover, the "Professor" convinces the naive Mrs. Wilberforce that the group is an amateur string quintet using the rooms for rehearsal space. To maintain the deception, the gang members carry musical instruments and play recordings of Boccherini's Minuet (3rd movement) from String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5 and Haydn's - Serenade for Strings Op. 3 No. 5 (the "Serenade," actually composed by Roman Hoffstetter) during their planning sessions.

Hungarian Summary:

Mrs. Wimmerforce, a rigolyás öreg hölgy örül új albérlőinek: Markus professzor és négy barátja háza két szobájában klasszikus zenét játszik. Nem is sejti, hogy a muzsikát lemez szolgáltatja, az urak pedig közben egy milliós rablást tervezgetnek. Mrs. Wimmerforce emellett tökéletes fedezet is: a gyanútlan asszonnyal szállíttatják el a zsákmányt a tett színhelyéről. Csakhogy a hölgy véletlenül felfedi titkukat. A rablóknak ezek után nem marad más választásuk: az asszonyt el kell tenniük láb alól. Erre azonban egyikük sem vállalkozik, ezen összevesznek, és a vita hevében megölik egymást.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus
• Cecil Parker as Major Claude Courtney
• Herbert Lom as Louis Harvey
• Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson
• Danny Green as 'One-Round' Lawson
• Jack Warner as the superintendent
• Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
• Philip Stainton as the sergeant
• Frankie Howerd as the barrow boy
• Kenneth Connor as a taxi driver.