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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1950)

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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 21  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.7/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Synopsis: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a deft and dark comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. Louis (Dennis Price), the black sheep of the wealthy family, must murder all the heirs in order to inherit the D'Ascoyne fortune. Watch as the brilliant... KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a deft and dark comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. Louis (Dennis Price), the black sheep of the wealthy family, must murder all the heirs in order to inherit the D'Ascoyne fortune. Watch as the brilliant Guinness disappears into his various eccentric roles. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe

Director: Robert Hamer
Producer: Michael Balcon
Screenwriter: John Dighton, Robert Hamer

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 2, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • 2-Disc
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Bonus Footage - 1. BBC programs on Alec Guinness & the history of Ealing Studios
  • Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Gallery - 1. Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
  • Essay - 1. Philip Kemp - Film Critic

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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4/5

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Rich Cline
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01/01/00
BBC
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There's a surprise ending that helps make this one of Ealing's darkest comedies.

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07/31/07
Dennis Schwartz
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Brilliantly sustains its outrageous black humor [with] a constant ironic contrast between the outward gentility… of its aristocratic milieu and the moral decadence… beneath it all.

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04/12/06
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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4/4

It was Voltaire, probably, who said that if Alec Guinness did not exist it would be necessary for Ealing Studios to invent him.

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04/05/06
Mark Bourne
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Easily the most beloved and durable film from the Ealing stable.

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03/23/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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3.5/4

A droll and delicious black comedy, one of the Ealing Studios' regal postwar hits.

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03/10/06
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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3.5/5

dry, mannered, and very ironic

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02/19/06
David Bezanson
Filmcritic.com
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3/4

A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels.

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02/15/06
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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09/14/05
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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5/5

Com o típico humor repleto de cinismo da Ealing, o filme se torna inesquecível graças também às atuações de Price e Guinness (fantástico como oito personagens diferentes).

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07/09/05
Pablo Villaca
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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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5/5

Wonderful. A great Guinness work.

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10/25/04
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
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5/5

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08/19/04
Peter Canavese
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Kind Hearts and Coronets suits our needs as a showcase for Alec Guinness’ ability to define characters sharply in even a little screen time.

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08/12/03
Mike Pinsky
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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
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4/5

Sick, twisted and over the top--in a word: delicious.

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03/11/03
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com
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Its dry English wit can't disguise a wonderfully wicked heart.

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10/15/02
Rob Vaux
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