The Ladykillers (1955) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Danny Green

Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter ...

see all copies from $8.95!

new only from $11.03!

The Man in the White Suit (1951) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger

Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Gough) is showing competitor Alan Bimley (Cecil Parker) ...

see all copies from $1.99!

new only from $15.40!

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene

Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This in turn was adapted by Lehman and Clifford Odets into the sharp-edged, penetrating feature film Sweet Smell of Success. Burt Lancaster stars as J. J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-style columnist who wields ...

see all copies from $1.99!

new only from $10.00!

Whisky Galore! (1949) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Joan Greenwood, Bruce Seton, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice

Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the precious liquid is wrecked on a reef. The islanders conspire to smuggle the whisky off the ship right ...

see all copies from $14.99!

new only from $14.99!

Don't Make Waves (1967) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate

British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) is a footloose tourist who meets Laura Califatti (Claudia Cardinale) when she accidentally edges his car off the highway. Laura invites Carlo to her home; he seems interested in her, but discovers she's already ...

see all copies from $17.45!

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe

Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of children. The Thorntons, a British family living in Jamaica, decide to pull up stakes and sail back to England after Frederick Thornton (Nigel Davenport) and his wife (Isabel Dean) decide that life in the Caribbean is having a ...

see all copies from $11.05!

new only from $11.05!

The Maggie (1954) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins

Originally released as High and Dry, The Maggie was one of the most endearing of the "regional" British comedies of the 1950s. Hollywood's Paul Douglas plays an American businessman whose brash, glad-handing techniques earn nothing but cold stares in a tiny Scottish village. Ever anxious to cut costs, Douglas arranges with a local "transport ...

see all copies from $14.99!

new only from $14.99!