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HEISTS.("The Ladykillers")(Movie Review)

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| April 05, 2004 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Why remake "The Ladykillers"? The original, directed by the Scotsman Alexander Mackendrick in 1955, was not the cream of the Ealing comedies--that supremacy belongs to "Kind Hearts and Coronets"--but it outstrips the tweeness of some of its fellows, giving off a peculiar blend of charm and menace. It was that combination, presumably, which tweaked the fancy of America's leading magpies, the Coen brothers. They rarely spy a genre that they do not wish to pilfer.

The tale has been lugged from the dankness of England to a warm American South. Here, on a peaceful street, lives Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall), together with ...

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