Family video review of the week
The Ladykillers
Droll British comedy in which a daffy gang of crooks (Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Danny Green) take a London flat as their hideout while planning a big heist until their sweet old landlady (Katie Johnson) innocently gums up the works. Director Alexander Mackendrick rings in the comic changes adroitly, going from whimsical to black comedy as the bumbling thieves try to murder the old woman but wind up killing each other instead, then topping it off with a wryly innocent conclusion. Comic treatment of violence and criminal activities. A-I -- general patronage. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. 1955
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.