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20 hours ago · A BBC Radio adaptation by Gilbert Travers Thomas of the screenplay by Robert Harner and John Dighton of the novel ISRAEL RANK by Roy Horniman. Dennis Price recreates his starring role from the 1949 British comedy film KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS of "Louis Mazzini", the only son of the disowned and cast-out youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Chalfont.
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5 hours ago · Writing of the 1949 black comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” in which Alec Guinness played every member of an eccentric aristocratic family, A.N. Wilson remarked on how “an essentially sad ...
1 day ago · While the title might make you think it’s something like Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), an elaborate tale of family treachery and literal backstabbing, the actual story was a fairly standard mystery where most of your attention is on deciphering the truth about what you’ve been told you will be told. A self-proclaimed “reliable narrator ...
1 day ago · Horniman’s story was adapted into the hit 1949 British film Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Sir Alec Guinness as the members of the ill-fated D’Ascoyne family. In 2013, A Gentleman’s Guide… , based on Horniman’s novel, opened on Broadway with music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak and book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman, winning the ...
2 days ago · An important part of Ealing Studios’ legacy, THE BELLS GO DOWN, directed by Basil Dearden (The Green Man, The Gentle Gunman) and produced by Michael Balcon (The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets), is a masterful and vividly authentic depiction of the work of the A.F.S (The Auxiliary Fire Service) that, in a revolutionary move, utilized ...
2 days ago · In this gangster comedy to end all gangster comedies, the inimitable Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob) is Professor Marcus, ostensibly a musician and academic, who rents a London flat from a sweet old lady (BAFTA-winning Katie Johnson). He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in ...
1 day ago · Brilliantly filmed in high Germanic style by a wondrously talented bunch of ex-pat Viennese uber talents: Curtiz, Anton Grot and Max Steiner.
