The Ladykillers Today

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The plot is wonderfully absurd: Professor Marcus (played with manic energy by Alec Guinness) puts together a gang of diverse criminals to pull off a bank heist. To do so, they take rooms in a lopsided, dreamy house near King’s Cross station in London, pretending to be an amateur string quintet practicing classical music. The Ladykillers

While the 2004 Coen Brothers remake has its fans, it never quite captures the surreal, claustrophobic brilliance of the original. The original is a "tragedy in slow motion" masked as a farce. , including Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers