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The genius of the film lies in the friction between the criminals' desperate, professional plans and Mrs. Wilberforce’s bustling, domestic normalcy.

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The plot is wonderfully absurd: Professor Marcus (played with manic energy by Alec Guinness) puts together a gang of diverse criminals to pull off a bank heist. To do so, they take rooms in a lopsided, dreamy house near King’s Cross station in London, pretending to be an amateur string quintet practicing classical music. The genius of the film lies in the

The only thing standing in their way? Their landlady, the sweet, elderly, and entirely-too-innocent Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). The Perfect "Ealing" Chaos More trivia about the Ealing Studios productions

The irony is the core: these dangerous men are not defeated by the police, but by their own squeamishness regarding a harmless old woman and their inability to work together.

All five hardened criminals end up squeezed into a tiny cupboard, unable to justify their presence.