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Kind Hearts and Coronets. Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman.
- 13 June 1949 (UK)
Kind Hearts and Coronets: Directed by Robert Hamer. With Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness. 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.
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- Robert Hamer
- Not Rated
- Comedy, Crime
Sep 15, 2002 · Murder, Louis demonstrates, and Orwell would agree, can be most agreeably entertaining, so long as the story lingers on the eccentricities of the villain rather than on the unpleasant details of the crimes. Note: The title comes from Tennyson, whose advice Louis should have taken: "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets was a black comedy that involves eight deaths (six of them by murder), adultery, and a satirical look at Britain's class system. This is no Ealing assertion of traditional ...
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- Alec Guinness
- Robert Hamer
- Ealing Studios
This classic Ealing comedy sees Dennis Price plot to inherit his family title by any means necessary... 1,128 IMDb 8.0 1 h 46 min 1950. X-Ray PG-13.
Synopsis. Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini (Dennis Price) is a descendant of a family of English aristocrats, but when his mother married below her station, the D'Ascoyne family disowned her, which Louis finds disgraceful. When his mother's dying wish, to be buried in the family crypt, is not granted by the family, Louis is enraged and eager for revenge.
Kind Hearts and Coronets. 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 her family ...
