Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) ( Kind Hearts & Coronets )

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: Kind Hearts & Coronets
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Robert Hamer

Written By:
Roy Horniman
Robert Hamer

Actors:
Dennis Price ..... Louis Mazzini
Valerie Hobson ..... Edith D'Ascoyne
Joan Greenwood ..... Sibella Holland
Alec Guinness ..... The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne /
Audrey Fildes ..... Mama Mazzini
Miles Malleson ..... Mr. Elliott - the Hangman
Clive Morton ..... The Prison Governor Colonel
John Penrose ..... Lionel Holland
Cecil Ramage ..... Crown Counsel
Hugh Griffith ..... Lord High Steward
John Salew ..... Mr. Perkins
Eric Messiter ..... Inspector Burgoyne
Lyn Evans ..... The Farmer
Barbara Leake ..... Miss Waterman - the Schoolmistress
Peggy Ann Clifford ..... Maud Redpole

Synopsis:

Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood friend who ends up marrying a dullard, and Edith (Valerie Hobson), the beautiful widow of one of his victims with whom he plans to share his title. But just when Louis is ready to assume the D'Ascoyne mantle, a bizarre irony strikes.

Louis Mazzini's mother's frequent tales of how her titled D'Ascoyne family shunned her after she eloped with an Italian commoner causes a simmering resentment in him. On being spurned because of his lowly status by his lifetime (if devious and fickle) sweetheart Sibella he decides to permanently remove all the D'Ascoynes standing between him and the Dukedom. Becoming romantically involved with one of the widows he has created, he finds Sibella's jealousy could seriously threaten his grand design.

Set in the stately Edwardian era, Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-murderer and his family fortune. Considered by some to be Ealing's most perfect achievement of all the Ealing films.

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