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. The Ladykillers
The genius of the film lies in the friction between the criminals' desperate, professional plans and Mrs. Wilberforce’s bustling, domestic normalcy. The irony is the core: these dangerous men