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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:8.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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]

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

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

Director: Robert Hamer

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

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Reviews for Kind Hearts and Coronets

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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10/15/03
Rich Cline
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In a career noted for multiple characterizations, Alec Guinness had his finest hour in the dryly hilarious Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ...

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07/29/09
Sarah Boslaugh
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03/26/09
Variety
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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
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | comment Comment
04/12/06
Steven D. Greydanus
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide

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
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com

Easily the most beloved and durable film from the Ealing stable.

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

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

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
03/10/06
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

dry, mannered, and very ironic

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

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
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

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09/14/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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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
Emanuel Levy
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Wonderful. A great Guinness work.

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

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08/19/04
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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Sick, twisted and over the top--in a word: delicious.

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03/11/03
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