Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
The frustrated and illegitimate heir to an extensive landed family proceeds to eliminate by ingeniously apt means all those members of the D'Ascoynes standing between him and his birthright.
Review:
Deliciously scripted and tastefully acted black comedy, one of the most loved and celebrated of the Ealing comedies, though not the most cinematic. It nevertheless nails that peculiarly English blend of tartness and gentility, as well as the Orwellian ideal of the 'perfect little murder'.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
The frustrated and illegitimate heir to an extensive landed family proceeds to eliminate by ingeniously apt means all those members of the D'Ascoynes standing between him and his birthright.
Review:
Deliciously scripted and tastefully acted black comedy, one of the most loved and celebrated of the Ealing comedies, though not the most cinematic. It nevertheless nails that peculiarly English blend of tartness and gentility, as well as the Orwellian ideal of the 'perfect little murder'.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
The frustrated and illegitimate heir to an extensive landed family proceeds to eliminate by ingeniously apt means all those members of the D'Ascoynes standing between him and his birthright.
Review:
Deliciously scripted and tastefully acted black comedy, one of the most loved and celebrated of the Ealing comedies, though not the most cinematic. It nevertheless nails that peculiarly English blend of tartness and gentility, as well as the Orwellian ideal of the 'perfect little murder'.