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Binding: DVD
EAN: 8809014812812
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Import
Item Dimensions: 37
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Number Of Items: 1
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 106 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: 1949
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 **** IMPORT FROM KOREA *** ENGLISH LANGUAGE **** REMOVABLE KOREAN SUBTITLE **** RESTORED HIGH-DEF DIGITAL TRANSFER **** NTSC ALL REGION *** BLACK & WHITE **** 106 MINUTES ****
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Here is Alec Guinness, and Alec Guinness, and Alec Guinness, and...
Louis D'Ascoyne (Dennis Price) would be next in line for a title and a large inheritance except for one thing; his mother ran off with an Italian singer, which was unacceptable. Now he is disinherited by his immediate and extended family. His mother dies rejected; it is pure murder trying to get back into the good graces of his family.
ALIC Guinness plays the different characters that are relatives including ... Read More
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