Kind Hearts and Coronets
Director Robert Hamer’s fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios’ greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly black comedies ever made. Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother’s unjust disinheritance by ascending to her family’s dukedom. Unfortunately, eight relatives, all played by the incomparable Alec Guinness, must be eliminated before he can do so.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- A feature-length BBC documentary on the history of Ealing Studios
- Rare, 70-minute talk show appearance by Alec Guinness, from 1977
- Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
- Original theatrical trailer
- American ending
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- A new essay by film critic Philip Kemp
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- A feature-length BBC documentary on the history of Ealing Studios
- Rare, 70-minute talk show appearance by Alec Guinness, from 1977
- Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
- Original theatrical trailer
- American ending
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- A new essay by film critic Philip Kemp
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Dennis Price
- Louis
- Valerie Hobson
- Edith
- Joan Greenwood
- Sibella
- Alec Guinness
- The duke
- Audrey Fildes
- Mama
Credits
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Based on a novel by
- Roy Horniman
- Screenplay
- Robert Hamer
- Screenplay
- John Dighton
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Douglas Slocombe
- Editing
- Peter Tanner
- Associate producer
- Michael Relph
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