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The Ladykillers

September 2021

  • An image from the poster for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws. The Shark is Broken play tells the story of how it was made.

    Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage

    The boat in Jaws, the flashy car in Back to the Future, and the kitchen in The Good Life: it seems we all want to recapture those moments – but in the theatre

October 2020

  • Superbly constructed ... The Ladykillers.

    The Ladykillers review – a comic crime caper that still kills

  • Herbert Lom and the on-set medical team

    On the set of classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers - in pictures

May 2019

  • Maggie O’Brien as Doris and Georgina Ambrey as Rosie in Theatre by the Lake’s production of My Mother Said I Never Should.

    My Mother Said I Never Should/The Ladykillers review – love trumps farce

    Charlotte Keatley’s 1987 work about mothers and daughters is a wonderful gesture of empathy, while a staging of the Ealing black comedy fails to find the funny

June 2017

  • Jo Donnelly, Abigail Mc Gibbon, Cheryl Fergison and Maria Connolly in The Ladykillers at the Lyric, Belfast.

    The Ladykillers review – all-female crooks hijack Ealing caper

    Casting women as the criminal gang heightens the artifice and adds a poignant twist to Graham Linehan’s adaptation of the classic film comedy

October 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for The Ladykilers clip

    The Ladykillers: watch the opening eight minutes - video

  • The Ladykillers

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Ladykillers review – the greatest comedy caper

April 2015

  • Anna Kirke as Mrs Wilberforce and Andrew Pollard as Professor Marcus

    The Ladykillers review – classic caper looks a little careworn

    With its cluttered set and ungainly action, the latest version of the Ealing comedy feels like a remake of a remake

December 2011

  • The Lady Killers

    Film blog
    Why it's the theatre that's given us a Ladykillers to die for

  • The Goonies

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Readers' comments – week seven

  • Linehan’s stage version of The Ladykillers

    How Graham Linehan dynamited The Ladykillers

  • The Ladykillers

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: The Ladykillers

October 2011

  • Graham Linehan, The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers – reborn for the stage

    Now more than 50 years old, Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is one of Britain's best-loved films. So how will Graham Linehan, writer of The IT Crowd and Father Ted, rework it for the theatre? By Euan Ferguson

  • Extra Ladykillers offer

    OFFER EXPIRED The Ladykillers: Top tickets and an exclusive post-show talk with Graham Linehan and Peter Capaldi for £45

    The celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers comes to life on stage this autumn in a new adaptation

  • The Ladykillers: Top tickets and an exclusive post-show talk with Graham Linehan and Peter Capaldi for £45

    The celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers comes to life on stage this autumn in a new adaptation by Graham Linehan, directed by Sean Foley. Extra members are invited to an exclusive post-show talk with members of the cast

October 2010

  • The Ladykillers

    The 25 best comedy films of all time
    The Ladykillers: No 5 best comedy film of all time

    Alexander Mackendrick, 1955

January 2010

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    The London knowledge
    The knowledge: London's film scene

    Continuing our series of cultural tours of the capital, Guardian film critic Xan Brooks looks behind the scenes of King's Cross - setting for scores of films from the Ladykillers to Alfie, Mona Lisa and Harry Potter

May 2008

  • Tristram Cary

    Obituary: Sound pioneer and composer of music for Doctor Who and The Ladykillers

June 2004

  • 'The most Southern place on earth'

  • The Ladykillers

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