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TrailersFromHell: ‘The Ladykillers’ (1956)

December 14, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

One of the top 10 comedies.

Alec Guinness is essentially doing an Alastair Sim impersonation, and his teeth should have gotten separate billing.

And you won’t believe it, but:

It was scripted by an American.

(Kind of like the way Moonstruck was written by an Irishman, but to the nth degree…)

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