Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Cecil Ramage
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 D...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 10, 2002
Stats: 606 reviews
A film that is remarkable for many reasons, eight of which are Alec Guinness. He played each of his roles with such pizazz that I kept flashing back (or flashing forward, depending on your point of view) to the late, great Peter Sellers. Guinness is beyond brilliant.
Kind Hearts And Coronets is an curious blend of black-hearted comedy and social satire. Dennis Price plays a disowned nobleman who hatches a plan to murder the 12 members of his family who stand between him and a Dukedom which he sees as his stolen birthright. He is fantastic as ...( read more)
I wouldn't call this a comedy, I barley laughed. It's a bone dry character study of a charming serial killer.
Alec Gunness's performances are what this film is all about,
the most charming film about a serial killer ever made! justly celebrated tour de force for alec guiness playing no less than 8 roles but the film is carried by dennis price as the murderous would be duke and joan greenwood as his duplicitous lady love, sibella. revenge is a di...( read more)
The Ealing films - especially the comedies are part of British film heritage. From a time when we had a British Film industry. But British film died in the 80s and it's a crying shame. Apart from the odd exception (Shane Meadows for example) the few British films that are being m...( read more)
Robert Hamer's black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets tells the story of a would-be Duke. The protagonists mother was part of a noble family but married a commoner and her family wanted nothing to do with her. Her dying wish was to be buried in the family crypt but this was denied...( read more)
Great performances from Dennis Price as the quintessentially British and exceedingly charming serial killer plus man of many faces Alec Guinness, as no less than eight members of the D'Ascoyne family.
"I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square."
Quite simply the best of the Ealing comedies. Brilliant performances from Dennis Price and Alec Guiness who plays all nine members of the D'Ascoyne family who get bumped off one by one
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