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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1950)

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Average Rating:3.1/10

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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[Criterion's 2006 two-disc DVD:] the new, restored transfer from a 35mm composite fine-grain master yields a flawless print.... Criterion's extras always make a release worth the attention....

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The film's laughs are served on the rocks, but in spite of the humor feeling watered-down, this 1949 Ealings Studios comedy remains an interesting dissection of the pathologies of the British class system.

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This is probably the best edition of this film we could hope for, so I advise you to buy it forthwith.

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