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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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Sep 10, 2002

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Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
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01/01/00
BBC

No review available.

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09/14/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

dry, mannered, and very ironic

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/19/06
David Bezanson
David Bezanson
Filmcritic.com

There's a surprise ending that helps make this one of Ealing's darkest comedies.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/31/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
02/15/06
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

No review available.

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06/30/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Easily the most beloved and durable film from the Ealing stable.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/23/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Not as good as it ought to be, but good

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08/21/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It was Voltaire, probably, who said that if Alec Guinness did not exist it would be necessary for Ealing Studios to invent him.

Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com | comment Comment
04/05/06
Mark Bourne
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com

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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07/09/05
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

No review available.

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08/19/04
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

No review available.

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10/03/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

No review available.

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10/15/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Its dry English wit can't disguise a wonderfully wicked heart.

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10/15/02
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, Kind Hearts and Coronets has a dry and detached air.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/27/02
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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In a career noted for multiple characterizations, Alec Guinness had his finest hour in the dryly hilarious Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ...

Full Review Source: Playback:stl | comment Comment
07/29/09
Sarah Boslaugh
Sarah Boslaugh
Playback:stl

Wonderful. A great Guinness work.

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10/25/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

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.

Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | comment Comment
04/12/06
Steven D. Greydanus
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide

A droll and delicious black comedy, one of the Ealing Studios' regal postwar hits.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
03/10/06
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
 
 
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