Kind Hearts and
Coronets (1949)
Directed by Robert
Hamer this film based on a novel by Roy Horniman stars Dennis Price,
Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness. The disowned son of
a noble family attempts to claim a dukedom by murdering those ahead
of him in the line of succession.
The plot of this film
serves as a satire for the morals of the Edwardian period and does a
good job of highlighting various hypocritical attitudes. While the
film is clever it is not overly funny throughout and does well to
include a fair amount of material that would never have got past the
censors in America. While the film is well made the highlights are
the performance of Price as the protagonist and Guinness who plays
eight members of the family in the line of succession with great
variety.
4/5
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