The Ladykillers
(1955) Film4, 4.55pm Ealing Studios made many comedies, and this is one of its best. Alec Guinness (above), Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker and Danny Green play a gang of robbers who realise they have to kill off their elderly landlady after she learns too much about their plans. Katie Johnson steals the show as the pensioner who refuses to die.