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User Reviews for: Kind Hearts and Coronets

Nutshell
/10  4 years ago
This is hands down my favorite Ealing Studios comedy, as I'm sure it is for many others.
A most exquisite and brilliantly dark comic showcase, most especially for Dennis Price who
is outstanding here in the lead role of Louis, and for some young actor named Alec Guinness
who plays a whopping 8 roles in this film! In those early days the young Mr. Guinness was
constantly challenging both himself, and his directors, in order to prove his capabilities. He
had done just that the year before with his fabulous portrayal of Fagin in Oliver Twist, and that
was only his 2nd movie! With this phenomenal 3rd piece of work, he silenced any critics that
might still be left, going on to enjoy a tremendous career that would last nearly the rest of his life.
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CinemaSerf
/10  2 years ago
The best, I think, of the Ealing Comedies features a wonderful Dennis Price as the hard-done-by aristocrat who sets out to exact the most spectacular series of acts of vengeance on those whom he blames for the plights of his childhood. Alec Guinness plays the entire (somewhat doomed) "D'Ascoyne" family outstandingly (especially, I thought, the vicar) and both Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood complete this excellent casting of this very enjoyable dark comedy that has the odd extra twist to complicate things nicely. It is one of those films you can watch over and over again and it just doesn't get wearisome.
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