In a career noted for multiple characterizations, Alec Guinness had his finest hour in the dryly hilarious Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ...
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07/29/09
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... [More]
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson
Director: Robert Hamer
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Reviews for Kind Hearts and Coronets
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03/26/09
Top CriticThere's a surprise ending that helps make this one of Ealing's darkest comedies.
07/31/07
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.
04/12/06
It was Voltaire, probably, who said that if Alec Guinness did not exist it would be necessary for Ealing Studios to invent him.
04/05/06
Easily the most beloved and durable film from the Ealing stable.
03/23/06
A droll and delicious black comedy, one of the Ealing Studios' regal postwar hits.
03/10/06
dry, mannered, and very ironic
02/19/06
A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels.
02/15/06
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02/09/06
No review available.
09/14/05
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).
07/09/05
No review available.
06/30/05
Wonderful. A great Guinness work.
10/25/04
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08/19/04
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10/15/03
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05/20/03
Top CriticSick, twisted and over the top--in a word: delicious.
03/11/03
Its dry English wit can't disguise a wonderfully wicked heart.
10/15/02
No review available.
10/03/02
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