The Ladykillers, Gielgud Theatre by Sheila Johnston

The great Ealing film comedies are often viewed as sacred cows, not matter that a small but significant number of them were decidedly sacrilegious. Indeed, one of the studio's last productions, Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955), was also one of its cruellest. Now it has been adapted by Graham Linehan, who asserts that his aim was not to emulate Mackendrick's jet black satire but to translate it into farc…

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