The Ladykillers
Cul-de-Sac England: The Ladykillers
By Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards
From Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present (I.B. Tauris, 1999)
When Ealing Studios were sold to the BBC in 1955, in the very month that The Ladykillers was released, a plaque was installed which declared: ‘Here during a quarter of a century were made many films projecting Britain and the British character.’ It is reasonable to assume, then, that The Ladykillers was consciously projecting something distinctively and desirably British.
PDF here. Here for a review of the film from The New York Times. Here for a review from Monthly Film Bulletin. Here for an article about the London locations of the film. Here for an article about the 2011 stage adaptation.
