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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Rank 5 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) a score of 3.3343 out of 4

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TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide

Coming on the heels of GREAT EXPECTATIONS and OLIVER TWIST, this was the film that made Alec Guinness an international star. Although Dennis Price has the largest single role in the picture (and plays it beautifully), Guinness took the lion's share of ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide

DVD Talk (Preston Jones)

Featuring Alec Guinness in a staggering eight roles, Kind Hearts and Coronets is a classic "Ealing comedy" which wittily indulges in satirical setpieces about upper class murder. Criterion's reliably deluxe package is thorough and engrossing. Highly ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at DVD Talk (Preston Jones)

Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

Kind Hearts and Coronets belies its seemingly genteel title by focusing on a young man determined to murder his way to the dukedom he feels is his birthright. Made in the dark years after World War II, Kind Hearts and Coronets broke from the warmer ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

filmcritic.com (David Bezanson)

This is often considered a classic black comedy and one of Alec Guinness' best films, but Kind Hearts and Coronets is far from perfect. ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at filmcritic.com (David Bezanson)

That Cow (Andrew Bradford)

Leave it to the English to come up with polite movies about such things as murder and kidnapping - The Collector and Felicia's Journey. Whether or not such genteel criminal behavior originated with Kind Hearts and Coronets (I doubt it - look at Agatha ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)

The Spinning Image

Louis Mazzini is shunned by his family, the rich, landed, and influential D'Ascoyne family, as a result of his mother's marriage to a poor, foreign commoner. Growing up without the trappings of wealth and privilege, the death of his mother makes Louis ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at The Spinning Image

BFI Screen Online

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) was the only Ealing comedy directed by Robert Hamer, and the critical and commercial highpoint of Hamer's troubled but often brilliant career. Adapted by Hamer and John Dighton from Israel Rank, a relatively little-known ...read the complete Kind Hearts and Coronets movie review at BFI Screen Online

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