Kind Hearts and Coronets

A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 3, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1949
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,112
Intrinsically British and of its time, KIND HEARTS is arguably Ealing's brightest jewel.
Empire
Nov 1, 2008
...Guinness gives the movie much of its comic accent....Price has fun too....The two actors find a comfortable rhythm...
Los Angeles Times
Aug 10, 1990
A high comedy that is enlivened with cynicism, loaded with dramatic irony and shot through with a suspicion of social satire. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Dec 20, 2014
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. Full Review
From the Front Row
Sep 13, 2019
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. Full Review
London Review of Books
Sep 20, 2019
A lovely, intelligent and warm comedy about a man who will do anything to reclaim his birthright. Full Review
Backseat Mafia
Jun 5, 2019
...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery...
Sight and Sound
Oct 1, 2002

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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  • UPC: 738329236335
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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