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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131145991
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 6271
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 1950
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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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"Kind Hearts and Coronets,"(1950), a black comedy/drama, is one of the most famous, and acclaimed, post World War II releases by the British Ealing Studios. It's generally agreed to be a minimalist masterpiece of wit and irony, made in black and white. Roy Horniman wrote the novel on which it's based, Robert Hamer wrote the screenplay and directed. Two celebrated witty novelists, Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, were hired to work on the script, though nothing specific seems to survive of their ... Read More
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Super old movie, a real treasure. Given as requested birthday gift and much pleasure watching it several times already. It arrived in perfect shape and soon after being ordered. Will continue to use Amazon.com.
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DVD - Starz/Anchor Entertainment - Crisp video and audio. Just thinking about this film still makes me chuckle and shake my head. I first saw "Kind Hearts and Coronets" several years ago on TCM. My jaw dropped! Wonderful performances, a story-line to die for, solid entertainment! As for special features we've the Alec Guiness bio - in forward flip the pages and read style - but it was interesting. Wonderful film!
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This is one of the movies I have most enjoyed in my entire life. Every single detail is so witty and so incredibly funny, that there is not a single second you don't enjoy. Alec G. is simply perfect.
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This is a highly entertaining black comedy about an illegitimate heir (Dennis Price) who tries to bump off eight relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) who stand in the way of him becoming a Duke. It's a very clever story with an imaginative twist at the end. Guinness is brilliant in his galaxy of roles.
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