Comedy Classics

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Credits

Country :

Year :

1949

Director :

Robert Hamer

Version :

vostFR

Duration :

106 minutes

Format :

digital | 4K Restoration

Actors :

Valerie Hobson, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness

Awards :

Best Production Design, Venice Film Festival 1949

synopsis

Louis is only ninth in line for the title that is rightfully his, and which he is determined to reclaim in revenge for his mother, a disgraced aristocrat. To inherit, he must eliminate the eight heirs who stand before him.

Très loin de se résumer à la performance multiple d’Alec Guinness qui y joue huit rôles, Kind Hearts and Coronets est un des chefs d’œuvres du studio Ealing et un grand classique du cinéma anglais.

Il était une fois le cinéma

Robert Hamer's 1949 film is often cited as the definitive black, eccentric British comedy, yet it's several cuts better than practically anything else in the genre.

Chicago Reader