About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Starring Denis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe. Originally released: 1949. Run time: 104 minutes. Black & white. Fine copy in original slip-case which lacks top flap. Impatient to become the duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate the eight others in his way, each of whom is played in this remarkable comedy by Alec Guinness. read more
Description: Price, Dennis. Good in good packaging. 06/07/1998 VHS is in PAL format (not compatible in NTSC only VCR players). Dispatched same day from warehouse, VHS in good or better condition. read more
Description: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Hugh Griffith, Jeremy Spenser, Arthur Lowe. Very good in good packaging. 1949 Run time: 101. /aka/ Kind Hearts and Coronets. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
UPC:013131145991
Description: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Hugh Griffith, Jeremy Spenser, Arthur Lowe. Very good in good packaging. 1949 Run time: 106. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Date: 09/10/2002
UPC:013131145991
Description: Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes. New. 1950 Run time: 106. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Criterion
Date: 02/28/2006
UPC:715515016926
Description: Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes. New. 1950 Run time: 106. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
"For a decade Ealing Studios produced the finest comedy films in the world. Fifty years on they are almost all regarded as classics, but there is none finer than this! There is no easy answer to the question "How can a film which features eight murders be so brilliantly funny?" Alec Guiness, yes, he of "Bridge over the River Kwai", portrays no less than eight characters, all of whom come to sticky ends, but the true comic genious is Dennis Price. His langorous, precisely enunciated and utterly stylish portrayal of an aspiring english aristocrat, pursuing then renouncing the delicious Joan Greenwood almost steals the show. There are hardly any special effects, only superb acting and a plot so labryinthine that it keeps you in suspense, and stitches, until, quite literally, the very last moment. One that is, without question, unmissable. Ask Robert Osborne if you don't believe me!"
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