Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
by Robert Hamer

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Actor: Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
Writer: Robert Hamer
Editor: Peter Tanner
Producer: Michael Balcon
Producer: Michael Relph
Writer: John Dighton
Writer: Roy Horniman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

Movie Reviews of Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Quaint, English and witty.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is British black comedy at its absolute best . It is set in an England that is sadly diminished, where the troubles in life were restricted to the perimeter of your village.
Alec Guinness is masterful at playing 10 different members of the same family, male and female.
Dennis price is the calm, respectable rogue that you will come to feel, is entirely justified in his murderous deeds. There are no acts of violence at all in the film which has a thought provoking twist at the end.

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Summary of Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection

Director Robert Hamer's fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios' greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly black comedies ever made. Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother's unjust disinheritance by ascending to the dukedom. Unfortunately, eight family members (all played by the incomparable Alec Guinness) must be eliminated before he can do so. SPECIAL FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, BBC programs on Alec Guinness and the history of Ealing Studios, Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs, Original theatrical trailer and A new essay by film critic and historian Philip Kemp.

Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of the Ealing comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to avenge his mother by murdering the relatives ahead of him in line for the dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness. Guinness's virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging from a youthful D'Ascoyne with a priggish wife to a brace of doomed uncles and one aunt. Miles Malleson is a splendid doggerel-spouting hangman, while Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood take advantage of unusually strong female roles. But the great joy of Kind Hearts and Coronets is the way in which its appallingly black subject matter (considered beyond the pale by many critics at the time) is conveyed in such elegantly ironic turns of phrase by Price's narrator/antihero. Serial murder has never been conducted with such exquisite manners and discreet charm. --David Stubbs

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