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.
Kind Hearts & Coronets - Digitally Restored
An Ealing Studios classic, Kind Hearts And Coronets is a deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan.
In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the suave, dashing black sheep of the wealthy family, Louis (Dennis Price) must murder all the other heirs. Watch as the brilliant Guinness disappears into his various eccentric roles.
This classic Ealing comedy has been digitally restored in celebration of the studios' 80th anniversary.
First released: Monday 5th September 2011
Extra features
- Audio commentary with Peter Bradshaw, Terence Davies & Matthew Guinness
- John Landis introduction
- Dennis Price: Those British Faces
- BBC Radio 3's The Essay: British Cinema Of The 1940s - Kind Hearts And Coronets audio featurette
- Alternative American ending
- Restoration comparison
- Behind the scenes stills gallery
- Excerpt from BECTU History Project interview with Douglas Slocombe
- Trailer
- Distributor: Optimum Home Entertainment
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 101
- Catalogue: OPTBD1792
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- Distributor: Optimum Home Entertainment
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Catalogue: OPTD1792
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