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Feb 21, 2006 · Ealing’s Shadow Side. K ind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is an Ealing comedy in name only. True, it’s undeniably a comedy and was made by (though largely not at) Ealing. But in virtually every other respect, it deviates startlingly from the commonly accepted stereotype. Ealing comedies, it’s widely agreed, are cozy, even complacent; Kind ...
Feb 28, 2006 · 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.
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Sep 10, 2002 · 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.
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May 22, 2021 · Publication date. 1949. Topics. Robert Hamer, Ealing Studios, comedy, crime. Language. English. A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. Addeddate. 2021-05-22 02:49:52.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets” (1949) is the most delicious concoction ever produced by Michael Balcon’s Ealing Studios, and it is my favorite British film. With exquisitely intelligent and stylish direction by Robert Hamer, from a screenplay that he wrote with John Dighton (“The Man in the White Suit” and “Roman Holiday”), it flows like ...
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