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It's detail like that which made Guinness such a fine actor imo. His long scarf and the way he hunched over pedalling away at Mrs Wilberforces Pianola. The mad telephone box scene was also memorable! I've seen the movie many many times but never tire of watching it.
I saw the original in a theater in the 1950's and the American version when it came out. I think the US version was doomed from the very beginning when Tom Hanks first appeared dressed like a thinner Colonel Sanders. From the very first you knew it was going to be a comedy and it was, but not very funny. The British played it more like a serious mystery, which it was for the most part.
@@domerbuz3813 Agreed, sometimes when they do re-makes of old movie's the just get it wrong. Anywho, if you want a bank job to be done Mrs Wilberforce is the one to do it.
I wonder how long it would have taken for the police to discover that Mrs Wilberforce was loaded. And the bodies in the trains would have been a nice puzzle for the police.
The Ladykillers is one of those very rare, inspired movies that is timeless. Brilliant in every respect. Plot. Acting. Location. They don't make movies like this any more.
@@MrDaiseymay no matter what there era there's probably some criminals who'd shrink back at the memory of being told off by a) their mother, b) their teacher c) their strict aunty or grandmother.
Quite a few years ago A guy o know says that he met Alec Guinness and had a conversation with him about this film and a couple other of his older films. He said Alec would much rather talk about these kind of role over his Star Wars role.
Younger viewers will remember him for playing Obi-Wan in the original Star Wars trilogy, but they would be surprised to find out that he didn't think much of the film or sci-fi in general, calling it a bunch of "fairy tale rubbish."
Hard to think of another film where the casting and characterisation are this perfect. Just looking at the Major, you can tell he's not above fleecing his nieces and nephews for their pocket money, or that One-Round's probably spent the last few years working in protection rackets. And as for Guinness... God, he scared me as a child! He's what Death would look like if he caught the 8.15 from Paddington every morning.
I still can't tell with the Major - in that scene where she talked about how the music brought her back to her birthday party and how it ended when someone came in to announce that Queen Victoria had died. The way the Major looked respectfully at the floor in the moment, can't tell if he was committing to the role he played or if he was being genuinely respectful in spite of being a crook.
@@agenttheater5 He comes across as quite a romantic soul, doesn't he? It's like the scene where 'Professor' Marcus tries to convince Mrs Wilberforce the robbery was carried out for compassionate reasons, and asks the Major to tell her about his elderly mother. He's hesitant at first, thinking on his feet, but when he gets going it's as though he genuinely believes this ridiculous yarn that he's spinning and feels it very deeply. I think he probably is touched by Mrs Wilberforce's story about her birthday, but he's also the sort of person who can reconcile blatant self-interest with sentimentality. Must say, he's probably my favourite character in the film - which is a tough choice given how wonderful the competition is!
The British perfection! An instant classic my folks were often telling me about in the 1960s, and I finally saw it myself for the first time, at age 16, in 1972, at the Brussels Cinémathèque.
My dear Dad worked in cinemas as a little lad, (he would have been in his 90's now, bless him) and he loved to share films like this with us. How I loved to watch them with him (we would even look out for the little dots and shout change reel lol ) :-D This film was always in his top 3. Thank you so much for turning it into 4K and bringing a little extra sparkle to it, he would have so loved this. :-D x
Does anyone over 60 remember these streets in Kings Cross/St Pancreas? I can remember it like yesterday in late 60's & 70's before developed. Also on a point of order. Tom Hanks denied he had ever watched this original before he made his remake. One of the most dis-ingenious remarks he ever has made!
I can’t wait to see this! I love the remake by Coen Bros and a big fan of Sellars, Guinness and Lom, and these scenes are good. I guess I’m the only one that likes the remake. I had no idea that Lom and Sellars worked together before the Pink Panther movies.
Superb film , no big epic explosions , gunfights or yawn inducing CGI . Just a great plotline with good twists and refined acting from the Ealing stable.
@@bluetrailerproductions7488 Yep..Another great comedy, also starring Peter Sellers, is I´m all right Jack. Or Two way stretch. Both brilliant classic comedies, in fact 👌😂
“Now sir Hatt, before we begin I’d like to know the money is?” “What money?” “The money you’ve showed us” “I never said you would get it” “What?” “You’re Not getting a penny” “YOU LIED TO ME! YOU UNDERSTAND NOTHING!” 😂
An old time classic! And after I saw the remake I enjoy this even more. And I wonder how wrong they could be in the remake. I sincerely can’t believe this difference between English and American humor! This can’t be made better apparently. So this is humor at its best! Do anyone know that the crazy character Cramer is the man with the horse.
I agree the American “remake” was poor and disappointing. You could say it was cheap and nasty there were a couple of decent jokes (the poster on the wall in the police station) for instance. But other than that there was something a bit unpleasant about it.
@@fredrickaappletree3402 I haven't seen an American remake of this, thank goodness! Americans, with respect, don't have the same sense as humour as we British and can NEVER be replicated. I find it very sad that even a 57 year old film can't be made available on You Tube, probably down to an agreement with Ealing Studios for copyright. The old Ealing Comedies were really funny. Kind Hearts & Coronets, Passport to Pimlico and the others - no bad language, no violence, just good clean comedy. Something which is sadly lacking in modern films.
@@amethyst9998 I love the American version. It is one of my favorite movies. There are additions, certainly. The gangsta stuff. It's a retelling in a different time in a different population. You might be pleased to see how true some scenes are to the British original. Watch the American straw picking scene after watching the matchsticks. The Cohen bros and the actors made a love letter to the Ealings with it.
@@amethyst9998 There are still 85+ year old movies that have a copyright, so I'm really not too surprised. Sure, those and also this movie should eventually go to public domain, but we're not there yet.
Professor Marcus is probably Alec Guinness finest work. The Ladykillers is one of my all time favourite film Mrs Wilberforce and her lopsided house is peak fiction. I'm surprised they managed to make the film considering Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers were notorious for cracking up during filming lol. Great film all-around casted by some of Britain's finest actors I recommend it to anyone yet to see it.
The second last time I saw this my dad commented that his grandmother wore a hat like one of the old ladies. The last time we saw it was with my grandmother and his mother, dad made the same comment about the hat, grandma wasn't sure.
@@TomEyeTheSFMguy I respect your opinion and of course opinions are never right or wrong The only thing I will say it remakes are really shows a lack originality and the Americans are so good at that plus makinq sequals which never really work One big thing spoils the Lady killer remake, they took a very innocent comical plot and thought let's use bad language to flog it to people
@@TomEyeTheSFMguy and really that is really the only thing what matters because we should never ever feel we should convince someone our opinion is right. We all have opinions and they are subjective
12:10-13:47 A result of both a line from the Crown season 1 about how a dressing down from Nanny is the only thing that upper-class Englishmen respect and of some P.G. Wodehouse's stories gets me thinking that the crooks all look like they're being told off by their governess or headmistress as if - (as I'm pretty sure P.G. Wodehouse put it) "as if she had caught them sucking acid drops during a scripture lesson". To any doubters, acid drops are sweets/lollies/candy, not drugs.
The condensed film is good, the robbery was top's, all these diversionary tactics, there is a play on this same subject, but it doesn't stand up to the film.!
This is an Alec Guinness classic. And one of my all time favourite movies. The remake with Tom Hanks fell well short of the original, not taking anything away from T. H.s performance.
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