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	Kind Hearts and Coronets
		In Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom.
		Robert Hamer's pitch-fl comedy of manners is legendary for having Alec Guinness play all of Louis's rivals and targets--among them the doddering Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne and the formidably militant suffragette Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne.
		Perhaps the greatest Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets is equally a brilliant satire of the English class system and a playful drama of doubles and confused identity.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is an Ealing Comedy in name only.
		The humour of Ealing comedies was generally warm, cheerful, and folksy; Kind Hearts is cool, ironic and witty.
		Kind Hearts is very funny, wickedly subversive, and probably the finest fl comedy the British cinema has every produced.
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	DVDFILE.com
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is most notable for Alec Guinness’ acting prowess; he plays no fewer than eight characters in the film.
		That doesn’t mean that Kind Hearts is the best British film to be released from Criterion – there are many candidates vying for that title – but in more ways than three, Kind Hearts and Coronets might be the most notable British entry in terms of style and content.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is an audacious, loquacious page-turner of a film, one that never fully relies on either slapstick or decidedly serious turns of events.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets - Moviefone
		Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is probably most famous today as "that film in which Alec...
		TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 movies Kind Hearts and Coronets: Guinness' eight-role performance is a brilliantly successful tour de force, with each character so sharply defined and acted that...
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		Consider how unnecessary such special effects were in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), in which Guinness plays eight different members of the same family, of both genders and a six-decade age span, by doing relatively subtle things with makeup, posture and behavior.
		The big screen underlined the quality of the fl and white cinematography, which in the case of "Kind Hearts" seems to owe something to "Citizen Kane"--another film that begins at the end and then circles back with narration.
		Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" has a dry and detached air, established by the memoirs of Louis, who maintains a studied distance from the evils he has committed.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		In Kind Hearts and Coronets Alec Guinness plays eight roles, but what is truly remarkable is the fact that this is not dwelled upon.
		Based on the novel Israel Rank, which was first published in 1907, Kind Hearts and Coronets tells the story of a young commoner, Louis, who seeks revenge against his own family after they disinherited his mother for marrying for love instead of money.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is certainly the best film that director Robert Hamer ever made as well as being one of the best British dark comedies, so it makes sense that this film would receive a great treatment, as it has.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
		"Made in Ealing," a terrific DVD feature in the Kind Hearts and Coronets package, explains Balcon's sense of morality, and the ways he used his film studio to reflect what he considered the proper British values (Balcon was actually American).
		After the war, the studio made detective stories, Westerns, and comedies, and by the time Kind Hearts and Coronets was released in 1949, the operation was finally breaking even.
		Ealing scored hits with The Lavender Hill Mob in 1951 and The Titfield Thunderbolt in 1953, but their small studio collective—in which many jobs were interchangeable—eventually couldn't compete, and Ealing went bankrupt in 1955.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kind Hearts and Coronets at Epinions.com
		(1949), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Man in a White Suit (1951), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), and The Ladykillers (1955).
		Kind Hearts and Coronets was directed by Robert Hamer, who also co-scripted the film with John Dighton.
		Themes: As a spoof, Kind Hearts and Coronets is able to get away with a degree of directness and severity in its social satire that would probably not work well in any more serious medium.
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	Kind Hearts And Coronets \| The A.V. Club
		If the Ealing Studios classic Kind Hearts And Coronets isn't the flest of fl comedies, then it may well be the driest: It's loaded with devastating slights dropped into the most formal of British sentences.
		As Philip Kemp's liner notes reveal, Kind Hearts And Coronets couldn't be further from Ealing's tradition of folksy, light-hearted comedies, and for that reason, it was treated coolly by the studio and American censors, who forced the filmmakers to tack on a thuddingly literal ending.
		The pampered cocker spaniel and a mangy, devil-may-care stray share their hearts and a plate of spaghetti in one of the most original Disney animated classics.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets - Alec Guinness
		Director Robert Hamer’s fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios’; greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly fl comedies ever made.
		(1939), Jules And Jim (1962), Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), Knife In The Water (1962), The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943), Loves Of A Blonde (1965), M (1931), M.
		It is less than 1 lower tier Criterion more than their Kind Hearts DVD and you can get 4 more biting, sometimes dark, yet always refreshingly elegant Ealing studio comedies.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets - Rotten Tomatoes
		Brilliantly sustains its outrageous fl humor [with] a constant ironic contrast between the outward gentility… of its aristocratic milieu and the moral decadence… beneath it all.
		Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, Kind Hearts and Coronets has a dry and detached air.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets suits our needs as a showcase for Alec Guinness’ ability to define characters sharply in even a little screen time.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Kind Hearts and Coronets: The Criterion Collection
		Guinness' career-making streak in such cracking good London-based Ealing comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit, and The Ladykillers began in grand fashion with 1949's elegant and cold-hearted Kind Hearts and Coronets.
		Although today Kind Hearts and Coronets is remembered as his virtuoso showcase, Guinness himself appears to understand that he is not, after all, the film's lead.
		It's hard to imagine any new version with a cast half this good, or a cast that doesn't lean into each performance until it falls over, or doesn't add blinking exclamation points to the script's flinty one-liners (a script that assumes a certain level of literacy in the audience to boot).
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
		Along the way, Kind Hearts and Coronets brilliantly sustains its outrageous fl humor by maintaining a constant ironic contrast between the outward gentility and sophistication of its aristocratic milieu and the moral decadence and ruthlessness beneath it all.
		A cheerfully mean-spirited delight, Kind Hearts is as wryly understated and discreet as Louis’ decorous narration, delighting in the outrageousness of Louis’ atrocities and his deadpan commentary without becoming morbidly entangled in the murders themselves.
		No small part of the film’s success is due to the lightness of Alec Guinness’; famous tour de force series of cameos in the roles of all eight ranking d’Ascoyne family members, young and old, male and female.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/kindheartsandcoronets.html (531 words)

	IGN: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Criterion Collection) Review
		An atypical release from the historically twee Ealing Studios, the film went on to earn distinctions in its native England and abroad, established Alec Guinness as one of cinema's great character actors, and offered a much-needed glimpse at the Brits' deeply twisted, hilarious sense of humor.
		Guinness, meanwhile, offered several additional alternatives to the ones we were already familiar with, but the die was cast for character actors with his almost immeasurable, chameleonic undertaking.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is the kind of movie you laugh easily at, then realize it's probably wrong to do so.
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	The Criterion Collection: Kind Hearts & Coronets
		Director Robert Hamer’s fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios’ greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly fl comedies ever made.
		Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother’s unjust disinheritance by ascending to her family’s dukedom.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949]: Video: Dennis Price,Valerie Hobson,Joan Greenwood,Alec Guinness,Audrey ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the great joy of Kind Hearts and Coronets is the way in which its appallingly fl subject matter (considered beyond the pale by many critics at the time) is conveyed in such elegantly ironic turns of phrase by Dennis Price's narrator/anti-hero.
		"Kind Hearts and Coronets" is an exquisitely written and performed film, which still appears fresh and vital today.
		"Kind Hearts" is a classy film, a timeless one, with a rich vein of fl humour running through it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Kind-Hearts-Coronets-Dennis-Price/dp/B00004CJCQ (1157 words)

	Kind Hearts And Coronets Movie, Review, Cast for Kind Hearts And Coronets \| TVGuide.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A fl comedy about mass murder, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is one of the British film industry's funniest movies, a...
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	KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
		KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS he made quick mention of its non-porn aspect and punched me in the stomach.
		KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is the story of one Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) who lost his place as the rightful heir to the d'Ascoyne family due to his mother's marriage to a poor Italian singer.
		Sadly for Mazzini, his father, upon first laying eyes on his young child, passed away, leaving his poor mother in a state of poverty so great she was forced to take on a lodger.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets
		One film in which distinguished performer Alec Guinness was to prove his acting versatility was in the 1949 fl comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, in which he played no less than eight roles.
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of the series of quality comedies to come from the British Ealing Studios.
		There is talk of a US remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets, with Robin Williams taking on the parts played by Guinness.
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	Slant Magazine - DVD Review: Kind Hearts and Coronets
		Like its aesthetic, the Lewis film's performances are loud, brash, and colorful; Kind Hearts and Coronets, by comparison, is slow and exudes an extraordinary feeling of reserve—its absence of color suggests a vulgar policy of exclusion.
		Quite possibly the darkest of the Eailing Studios comedies, Kind Hearts and Coronets isn't very funny—even by the stiff-upper-lip standards of the Brits, the humor is so dry and nonchalant as to appear nonexistent—but Hamon's gift for character observation is generous and insightful, which he cleverly reflects in the fiber of the film's early scenes.
		This respect and understanding for the role of the female, her suffocation, and her desire and potential for outrage within British society exposes the depth of Hamon's kind heart and mind.
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	Robert Hamer: Kind Hearts and Coronets \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is not only one of the best British films, but also one of the most extraordinary fl comedies cinema has known.
		Kind Hearts was much cooler, darker and more aware of sexual irony than most of the genre.
		A homosexual at a time when it was virtually impossible to admit it, he put a whole slice of himself into his performance.
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	Kind Hearts and Coronets
		Kind Hearts and Coronets is a fl comedy, presented in a coolly elegant style with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays.
		The title was taken from a Tennysonian couplet quoted by one of the characters: 'Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood'; in France the film was called Noblesse Oblige.
		It was based on a novel by Roy Horniman published early in the century called Israel Rank, but the film credits do not betray the title, merely the author's name, perhaps as an instance of delicacy, for another Rank had provided the major part of the film's finance as well as its British distribution.
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	Amazon.ca: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Full Screen/B&W): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kind hearts, Dr. Strangelove, The lavender hill mob, the lady killers and the gold rush can be in this group.May be you do not agree but in this particular selection.
		"Kind Hearts and Coronets" is probably the most acclaimed and widely appreciated of the "Ealing Comedies", which Great Britain's Ealing Studios produced after World War II under the reign of studio boss Michael Balcon.
		It is loosely based on the 1907 novel "Israel Rank" by Roy Harniman, although the novel is not a comedy, and its tone as well as the personality of its protagonist are very different from the movie.
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	www.myspace.com/kindhearts
		Asa and co.: it was great to finally share the stage (at the Kinks/Love/Byrds trib.) with the Kind Hearts, Trumpet and Trombone.
		There were sound waves flung into souls in that dark room of shuffling feet and longing hearts.
		So last night after your show I was driving around Los Angeles listening to your album and I swear at one point I thought I saw God but it turned out to be a mountain lion that escaped from Griffith Park.
	www.myspace.com /kindhearts (489 words)

	Robert L. Freedman Current Projects
		KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS had a staged reading at the Huntington Theatre in Boston on April 6, 2006, as part of their Breaking Ground series of new plays.
		For their work on KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS and CAMPAIGN OF THE CENTURY, Robert and Steve are the recipients of the 2nd Annual Fred Ebb Award for songwriting, from the Fred Ebb Foundation and the Roundabout Theatre Company.
		Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak were invited by the Sundance Institute to participate in their annual Playwrights Retreat at UCROSS in Wyoming, in February, 2004.
	www.robertlfreedman.com /pages/projects.html (752 words)

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		Kind Hearts and Coronets was in other respects rather out of the Ealing routine.
		It was largely coincidental when, as a result of films like Passport to Pimlico, Whiskey Galore and Kind Hearts and Coronets, they became truly popular in the States and elsewhere in the world, simply demonstrating that with international audiences the best bet is to remain firmly and unflinchingly national.
		But Kind Hearts and Coronets, though as unequivocally English as any of them, fitted neither into the stereotype of cosiness and fundamental amiability nor into that of the group effort.
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