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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3339161274157
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: FrenchSubtitledFrenchOriginal LanguagePCM MonoEnglishOriginal LanguagePCM MonoSpanishOriginal LanguagePCM Mono
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 106 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 1950
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
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The acting is brillant but the film moves slow. Some of the language was ok in its day but not acceptable today--and I don't mean swear words. Its worth seeing to see Alex Guiness play 8 different parts.
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Joan Greenwood is the sexiest hottie in cinema history. Even with all her clothes on all the time, she was almost too sexy for the British censors, because of her voice. And that voice is only one of her assets. She's gorgeous, pouty, petite, and so alluring it's quite scary. It's worth seeing it just for her.
That's really all you need to know, but the rest of the movie is pretty good too (ironic understatement alert!). The screenplay is the sort of thing PG Wodehouse might have ... Read More
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This is British black comedy at its absolute best . It is set in an England that is sadly diminished, where the troubles in life were restricted to the perimeter of your village.
Alec Guinness is masterful at playing 10 different members of the same family, male and female.
Dennis price is the calm, respectable rogue that you will come to feel, is entirely justified in his murderous deeds. There are no acts of violence at all in the film which has a thought provoking twist at the end.
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The English seem to have a gift for "black comedy"--and nowhere is that gift on better display than in the 1949 KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, a film that finds Alec Guiness playing eight members of the D'Ascoyne family and Dennis Price as the black sheep of the family who is determined to kill his way through them to both avenge his mother and obtain the title Duke of Chalfont.
The film is often described as "droll," and indeed the word might have been invented with this movie in mind. The story ... Read More
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Perhaps the greatest script ever written for any movie? Quite a claim but if you have not seen KH&C, do and see if you agree. As usual the Criterion Collection edition is the DVD to go for (so now where is the CC version of The Wrong Box???????). The xtras are not many (2.5) but very worthwhile.
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