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Meredith 2022-05-10 22:23:31
Ealing black comedy classic. highly recommended!
The appearance of the protagonist of the film, the landlady, is quite metaphorical. At the gate of the police station, she stopped to tease the baby in the stroller. As a result, the child suddenly burst into tears. This really startled her, and it also caused the mothers to look coldly. The...
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Rosario 2022-05-10 13:07:45
[Film Review] The Ladykillers (1955)
Technically, how difficult can it be for 5 hardened criminals (posed as a string quintet with the whole combo of its instruments) to liquidate a petite old lady like Mrs. Wiberforce (Johnson), who lives alone in her lopsided manse in the vicinity of London's Kings Cross railway station, a perfect...
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Stone 2022-05-10 15:15:27
①Professor's shadow appears with a hint of horror warning ②Seeking money but unwilling to kill, British gentleman robbers ③Following the train to the distance one by one
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Dillon 2022-05-10 22:40:55
Ealing Comedy enters the age of color. It is obviously adapted from Fritz Lang's famous German expressionist "Dr. Mabus" series (the crime gang leader in this film is named Dr. Marcus), and there are many deep references to German expressionism, such as the The subsidence and sloping old English villa, the sloping stairs, the hidden suspense paragraph before Dr. Marcus's appearance, the invocation and play of "Shadow of Horror", and the selection of actors. Among them, Robinson, one of the five stupid robbers, was played by Peter Cyrus, and he couldn't even recognize it without looking at the cast because he still had a babyface at that time. The story of five stupid thieves and an old woman has been remade many times because of the classic play. The plot of throwing corpses from the bridge was also borrowed from "Fireworks in the Day". The first and last scenes echo each other, and Mrs. Wieberbush goes to the police station to call the police. The point that forms the self-allusion is the undisguised falsity of Ilynn's comedy: the fake pictures project the street scene, and the furniture that breaks when it is bumped also contributes to the generation of a self-style.
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[driving past the police station, they see their case of money sitting in the doorway]
Harry: I don't believe it. I don't *believe* it!
Louis: Shut up.
One-Round: It's just... sitting there... look, couldn't we...?
Professor Marcus: No one, I hope, is going to suggest that we steal it.
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[Professor Marcus enters the phone booth right as the phone rings. On the other end, Claude is in another phone booth outside the train station, watching Mrs. Wilberforce collect their trunk]
Professor Marcus: Now, Major, before we start, let's press button A, shall we?... That's better... Major. Ma - Major! I want you to keep calm, speak quietly, and concentrate. Have you got that? Splendid. Mrs. W. should be coming into view just about...
[hums]
Professor Marcus: ... now... Now she's driving away.
[She does, but comes back]
Professor Marcus: . Major, Major, Major
[throws phone book]
Professor Marcus: RELAX! Calm down!
Claude: Back to the station! She's come back to the station!
Louis: [entering phone booth] What's wrong? Major!
Professor Marcus: Louis! Louis!
Louis: Major, tell me what's happening! Major!
Professor Marcus: Louis! Louis, will you mind your own business, please!
Harry: [Harry enters the phone booth too, and One-Round tries to squeeze in with them] Louis! Give us a listen, Louis! Come on, let me hear, will you? I want to hear!
Harry: [to One-Round] Get out! Louis, I want to hear what he says!
Louis: [to One-Round] You get out! Major, tell me what's happening!
Louisa Wilberforce: [coming out of the train station with her umbrella] I'm always leaving it.
Louis: [hearing Professor Marcus laughing] What's she doing?
One-Round: What's going on here?
Professor Marcus: It's all right, it's just that she went back to get her umbrella!
