Kind Hearts and Coronets (2-DVD) - Comedy Classic Movies on DVD (1950) Starring Alec Guinness; Directed by Robert Hamer; Criterion : OLDIES.com

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DVD Features:

2-Disc
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

Dolby Digital Mono - English

Additional Release Material:

Bonus Footage - 1. BBC programs on Alec Guinness & the history of Ealing Studios
Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

Gallery - 1. Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
Essay - 1. Philip Kemp - Film Critic

Entertainment Reviews:

Los Angeles Times - 08/10/1990

"...Guinness gives the movie much of its comic accent....Price has fun too....The two actors find a comfortable rhythm..."

Sight and Sound - 10/01/2002

"...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery..."

Entertainment Weekly - 03/03/2006

"The literate, merry script stays spiky as an arrowhead..." -- Grade: B+

New York Times - 02/28/2006

"Class is the great unmentionable of American movies, but the British positively swill in the subject. Seldom has it been treated with more elegance and bile than in Robert Hammer's 1949 Ealing comedy KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS."

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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Production Notes:

Alec Guiness' plays eight roles, which are:
1. Ethelred D'Ascoyne, The Duke of Chalfont
2. The Banker, Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
3. The Parson, Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne
4. The General, Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne
5. The Admiral, Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne
6. Young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
7. Young Henry D'Ascoyne
8. Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Alec Guinness
Directed by		Robert Hamer
Produced by		Michael Balcon
Screenwriting by		John Dighton & Robert Hamer
Performer		Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe & Joan Greenwood

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