Kind Hearts and Coronets (Blu-ray)
A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 3, 2019
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Alec Guinness | |
| Performer: | Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe & Joan Greenwood | |
| Directed by | Robert Hamer | |
| Edited by | Peter Tanner | |
| Screenwriting by | John Dighton & Robert Hamer | |
| Art Direction by | William Kellner | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon | |
| Director of Photography: | Douglas Slocombe |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Intrinsically British and of its time, KIND HEARTS is arguably Ealing's brightest jewel.
Empire
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A diabolically clever comedy.
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Film Frenzy
Drownings, explosions, and poisonings, their ethical status barely mentioned, let alone chastised, roll by like carriages in the park. The comedy is as black as widow's weeds. Artfulness is all.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3.5/4 --
As scathing a critique of the British upper classes as the cinema has ever given us, disguised as a light comedy with a charming exterior.
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From the Front Row
A high comedy that is enlivened with cynicism, loaded with dramatic irony and shot through with a suspicion of social satire.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
I keep wondering how the film manages to stay so light in spite of the notional black comedy of its plot. I think it has something to do with the sense of being out of time that I mentioned earlier: not timeless, but resistant to time.
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London Review of Books
...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
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.
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- Sales Rank: 27,284
- UPC: 738329236342
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