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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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BRAND NEW IN SHRINK WRAP, MINT CONDITION! CLASSIC 1949 CLASSIC COMEDY, VOTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BRITISH FILMS OF ALL TIME BY THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE. WILL SHIP VIA USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE PURCHASING

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

Key Product Details

  • Director: Robert Hamer
  • Number Of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 106 (Minutes)
  • UPC: 013131145991