 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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What a Carve Up! 1961  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
aka: No Place Like Homicide
Director: Pat Jackson
Cast: Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Price, Michael Gough, Valerie Taylor, Michael Gwynn, Esma Cannon, Philip O'Flynn, Timothy Bateson, Frederick Piper
Members of the Broughton family gather together in an eerie mansion for the reading of Uncle Gabriel's (Philip O'Flynn) will. Several of the family end up murdered, and it turns out that the murderer is Uncle Gabriel who faked his death to get even with the rest of his family.
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| 1. The Ladykillers (1955)
2. What a Carve Up! (1961)
aka: No Place Like Homicide
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