In a career noted for multiple characterizations, Alec Guinness had his finest hour in the dryly hilarious Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ...
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1950)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:21
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe, Joan Greenwood
Director: Robert Hamer
Director: Robert Hamer
Producer: Michael Balcon
Screenwriter: John Dighton, Robert Hamer
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Reviews for Kind Hearts and Coronets
There's a surprise ending that helps make this one of Ealing's darkest comedies.
Brilliantly sustains its outrageous black humor [with] a constant ironic contrast between the outward gentility… of its aristocratic milieu and the moral decadence… beneath it all.
It was Voltaire, probably, who said that if Alec Guinness did not exist it would be necessary for Ealing Studios to invent him.
A droll and delicious black comedy, one of the Ealing Studios' regal postwar hits.
A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels.
Com o típico humor repleto de cinismo da Ealing, o filme se torna inesquecível graças também às atuações de Price e Guinness (fantástico como oito personagens diferentes).
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