 The Ladykillers 1955  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson, Jack Warner, Philip Stainton, Fred Griffiths, Sam Kydd, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Edie Martin, Ewan Roberts, Harold Goodwin
Marcus (Alec Guinness) is the leader of an inept gang of thieves planning a robbery. The gang rents apartments in elderly Mrs. Wilberforce's (Katie Johnson) London house and tells Mrs. Wilberforce that they are musicians. The ploy does not work, and when she learns the truth about them the gang decides to kill her. Bad idea–and they are thwarted by the doddering Mrs. Wilberforce.
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The Shop at Sly Corner 1947  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Code of Scotland Yard
Director: George King
Cast: Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Manning Whiley, Kathleen Harrison, Garry Marsh, Kenneth Griffith, Jan Van Loewen, Irene Handl, Johnnie Schofield, Diana Dors, Katie Johnson, Eliot Makeham
Antique dealer Descius Heiss (Oskar Homolka) is hiding the fact that he is an escaped convict. But, his bookkeeper Robert Graham (Derek Farr) has caught on and is blackmailing him. In order to protect his concert violinist daughter Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), whose career would suffer if her father's past was revealed, Descius kills Farr. Later, when Scotland Yard investigates the murder, Descius commits suicide–one more desperate act aimed at protecting Margaret.
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| 1. The Ladykillers (1955)
2. The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
aka: Code of Scotland Yard
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