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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film produced by Ealing Studios. A radio version of the script, starring Michael Kitchen and Harry Enfield, has been broadcast on BBC7, most recently in October 2007. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Robert Hamer was a British film director and screenwriter, best known for his work at Ealing Studios in the 1940s, including the celebrated comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness. ...
John Dighton (1909 - 1989), was a successful British playwright and screenwriter. ...
Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ...
Valerie Hobson (April 14, 1917 – November 13, 1998) was a British actress, who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Ernest Irving (November 6, 1878–October 24, 1953) was an English composer and conductor, primarily remembered for his involvement in film music. ...
Douglas Slocombe is a British cinematographer who has enjoyed a long career in the British film industry. ...
General Film Distributors (GFD), was a British film distribution company active until the 1950s. ...
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Ealing Studios, a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London, claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. ...
Michael Kitchen (born October 31, 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor. ...
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BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ...
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The script was directed by Robert Hamer, written by John Dighton and Hamer, and very loosely based on a book, Israel Rank, by Roy Horniman. The title is a quotation from Tennyson's 1842 poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere, which proclaims that "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." Robert Hamer was a British film director and screenwriter, best known for his work at Ealing Studios in the 1940s, including the celebrated comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness. ...
John Dighton (1909 - 1989), was a successful British playwright and screenwriter. ...
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Lady Clara Vere de Vere is an English poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, part of the collection The Lady of Shalott, and Other Poems, published in 1842. ...
Coin showing a coronet A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. ...
Norman conquests in red. ...
The film stars Dennis Price as a potential heir to a dukedom, but eight members of the D'Ascoyne family stand in his way. All eight (including one woman) are played by Alec Guinness. Guinness is also depicted in a painting of a family ancestor. There are also notable performances from Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood as a femme fatale. Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ...
The term duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or to the highest rank of nobility in various other European countries, including Spain and France (in Italy, principe...
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Valerie Hobson (April 14, 1917 – November 13, 1998) was a British actress, who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. ...
Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI. A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. ...
The film is generally regarded as the one of the best made by Ealing Studios and appears on the Time magazine top 100 list as well as on the BFI Top 100 British films list. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Kind Hearts and Coronets the 25th greatest comedy film of all time. In 2004 the same magazine named it the 7th greatest British film of all time. Ealing Studios, a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London, claims to be the oldest film studio in the world. ...
In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1000 people from the world of UK film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century. ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ...
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Synopsis
Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is the son of a woman ostracised by her noble family for eloping with an Italian opera singer. Upon her death, the D'Ascoynes refuse to allow her to be buried in the family crypt. As a result, Louis plots revenge, aiming to succeed to the Dukedom of Chalfont, but eight relatives are ahead of him in line for the title. Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ...
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Louis sets out to murder them all, in various inventive and blackly humorous ways. He manages to dispatch six of them. The other two die without his "assistance": his kindly banker employer, who dies of a stroke when he learns that he has inherited the dukedom, and Admiral D'Ascoyne, who obstinately steers his warship into a collision with another, and remains saluting on the bridge while it sinks beneath him (satirising the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893).[1] HMS Victoria was one of two Victoria-class battleships of the Royal Navy. ...
Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Complications ensue when Louis is torn between two women, Sibella (Joan Greenwood), his longtime sensual paramour, and the more refined Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of one of his victims. The former becomes jealous of the latter. When Sibella's dull husband Lionel (John Penrose) kills himself, she hides the suicide note and, ironically, Louis ends up being tried and convicted of murdering one of the few people he didn't dispatch. Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. ...
Valerie Hobson (April 14, 1917 – November 13, 1998) was a British actress, who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. ...
John David Penrose (born June 22, 1964) is the Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare. ...
In prison awaiting execution, he writes his memoirs, detailing his exploits. Sibella has a change of heart and "finds" the suicide note, saving Louis. Exiting the prison gates, Louis finds two carriages awaiting him: in one, the forgiving Edith, and in the other, the seductively dangerous Sibella. While trying to choose between them, a publisher approaches him, requesting the rights to publish his memoirs; he suddenly remembers leaving his self-incriminating manuscript in his cell.
Difference from the novel Louis' father in the novel was Jewish rather than Italian. Horniman had been accused of anti-Semitism, so the film-makers decided to play safe by changing his background. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...
The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...
Cast - Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini and Mazzini's father
- Alec Guinness as The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry and Lady Agatha. Guinness was originally offered the parts of only four D'Ascoynes. "I read [the screenplay] on a beach in France, collapsed with laughter on the first page, and didn't even bother to get to the end of the script," he recounts. "I went straight back to the hotel and sent a telegram saying, 'Why four parts? Why not eight!?'"[2]
- Valerie Hobson as Edith
- Joan Greenwood as Sibella
- John Penrose as Lionel
A young Arthur Lowe has a brief appearance at the end. Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was a British actor. ...
Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ...
Valerie Hobson (April 14, 1917 – November 13, 1998) was a British actress, who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. ...
Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 27 February 1987) was an English actress. ...
John Penrose (1914–1983) was a British actor. ...
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 — 15 April 1982) was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. ...
Production notes Chalfont, the family home of the d'Ascoynes, is Leeds Castle [3] in Kent, England. The front of Leeds Castle Leeds Castle Leeds Castle in Winter Leeds Castle and its ditch Leeds Castle, four miles south east of Maidstone, Kent, England, dates back to 1119, though a manor house stood on the same site from the 9th century. ...
The film's musical theme is 'Il mio tesoro' from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...
See also The Heralds is a novel written by Brian Killick in 1973. ...
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