Kind Hearts And Coronets. The General D'Ascoyne (Alec Guinness). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL / Ealing Studios
Kind Hearts And Coronets

Kind Hearts And Coronets

  • 1949 film

Black Ealing comedy with eight classic characterisations by Alec Guinness as the noble victims of vengeance-seeking relative Dennis Price. Stars Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness.

Israel Rank: The Autobiography Of A Criminal

By Roy Horniman

First published in 1907 Israel Rank: The Autobiography Of A Criminal is perhaps best known as the inspiration for the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets, which was voted the seventh greatest British film of all time by readers of Total Film magazine in 2004.

It has often been suggested that Israel Rank is an antisemitic novel but this is untrue. What Horniman does is to use his characters and the novel's plot as a vehicle to explore and parody the antisemitism that was rife in Edwardian Britain. While part of the success of the novel is due to the film's cult status Israel Rank remains a classic comedic novel that explores the antithesis of conventional morality - in short it is a comedy about a serial killer.

First published: Thursday 18th September 2008

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  • Published: Friday 18th April 2014
  • Publisher: Faber And Faber
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