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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a deft and dark comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. Louis (Dennis Price), the black sheep of the wealthy family, must murder all the heirs in order to inherit the D'Ascoyne fortune. Watch as the brilliant Guinness disappears into his various eccentric roles.
 

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Murder He Wrote: Sir Alec Guinness Write-Off

Date of Review:  Aug 27, 2000
Review: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

- Lord Tennyson

Revenge is a dish the people of taste prefer to eat cold.

- Italian Proverb

Nobody commits murder just for the experience...
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  5.0

by: Donlee_Brussel
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Sir Alec Guinness' tour de force...
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Alec Guinness, the Eight-Faced Man

Date of Review:  Aug 27, 2000
Review: Before there was Eddie Murphy, there was Alec Guinness. Before the Klumps, the d?Ascoynes.

Decades before Murphy made his mark playing a simultaneous multitude of characters in the Nutty Professor movies (and flicks like Life and Coming to...
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Alec Guinness, Alec Guinness, Alec...
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THICK British accents sometimes muddle...
 

Coronets Tuned a Bit Flat for Me

Date of Review:  Jul 19, 2005
The Bottom Line: One of the most popular Ealing comedies, but less effective for me than the others I've reviewed.
Review: This film offers another dose of Ealing comedy, a bit darker than other Ealing offerings, as well as eight – count em! – eight doses of the great Alec Guinness.

Historical Background: In the late forties and early fifties, Ealing Studios...
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Product Details and Features

Key Information

Directors Robert Hamer
Stars Alec Guinness
Actors Arthur Lowe
Genre Comedies
Subgenre Switching Roles • Family Interaction • British • Classic • Comedy
MPAA Rating Not Rated
Available Formats DVD
UPC 715515016926
Release Date 1950
Running Time 1hr 50min

Languages

Original Language English

DVD Editions

  Format: DVD , 1hr 46min
Release Company: Anchor Bay Entertainment (September 10, 2002)
UPC: 013131145991

VHS Editions

  Format: VHS
Release Company: Home Vision

Credits

Screenwriter Robert Hamer

Professional Reviews

  (10/01/2002, p.66, Philip Kemp): "...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery..."
 

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