The Ladykillers

Guy kind of pisses me off.

Ladykillers was good, the original Ladykillers.

Yeah, yeah.

R- right? But, like, you know- Like, what is he doing in that movie?

Um, I love heist-gone-wrong movies, and this is a heist-gone-wrong movie.

Of the one d- movie that it reminds me of is, uh, is The Ladykillers.

Mm-hmm.

That classic, um, Ealing Studios version.

Which I don't know if you've ever seen The Ladykillers, but it's a delight- delightful movie-

Yeah

... with Alec Guinness, uh, from the golden age of British cinema.

It's not cinema parody.

So, but the, as far as the like intentionality of how we are depicting these memories specifically for this, you know, specific child, the, like, in addition to the, the, you know the music i mean literally like the soundtrack of this movie in addition to everything else there are certain uh fragments certain scenes that are strung together by overlaid like film audio just like snippets from film um and i didn't like i didn't get a full list maybe there's probably a list that like lives online somewhere but like 40s 50s cinema like there's Per IMDb trivia, there's the Magnificent Ambersons, there's Meet Me in St. Louis, there's Great Expectations, there's The Happiest Days of Your Life, The Lady Killers, something called Private's Progress.

Things that, as relatable to me as probably anybody else here, but you have those additional associations with your memories of, this is how I lived it, this is what I saw, these are the people that... that I went to school with, this is my family, this is what they said, this is what they did.

And you have those, retroactively, your memory will be populated with things that maybe don't exist from that era, maybe they were, but you have those experiences at the cinema or listening to records with that additional audio that pipes in.

Director Alexander McKendrick made one true film noir, but it ranks among the greatest that genre ever produced.

Better known for British comedies such as The Lady Killers 1955, McKendrick brought an outsider's eye to New York City, creating a world where power, influence, and corruptions are every bit as dangerous as guns and gangsters.

Burt Lancaster stars as J.J. Hunsaker, one of the most intimidating figures in film noir.

Lancaster's commanding performance transforms a newspaper columnist into a man whose words are more destructive than bullets.

Yeah

... long before your time, called The Ladykillers, which was a 1955 dark comedy, very, very funny film, um, about a load of kind of bank robbers.

Well, not bank robbers, but, but baddies who rob some money.

And I'm not gonna give it away, but there's a lot of murder and-