Kind Hearts and Coronets
A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
17 January 1895, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
14 April 1917, Larne, County Antrim, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK
August 18, 1879 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK
25 May 1888, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
24 February 1926, Hampstead, London, England, UK
30 May 1912, Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales, UK
22 September 1915, Hayfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
May 5, 1918 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK
16 March 1904, London, England, UK
1 April 1943, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
March 23, 1921 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK
23 June 1915, Twyford, Berkshire, England, UK
4 March 1921, Chelsea, London, England, UK
5 May 1914, Southsea, England, UK
14 August 1892, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
14 May 1903, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, UK
25 February 1912, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, UK
24 November 1922, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
16 July 1937, London, England, UK
1902, Portsmouth, England, UK
23 March 1921, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
14 December 1908, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, UK
2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
28 February 1898, Putney, London, England, UK
August 22, 2011
Hamer had a particular liking for the late-Victorian/Edwardian world and was a great Francophile.
September 03, 2010
Robert Hamer's 1949 film is often cited as the definitive black, eccentric British comedy, yet it's several cuts better than practically anything else in the genre.
September 27, 2002
Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, Kind Hearts and Coronets has a dry and detached air.
August 19, 2011
Amazingly courageous for its day (1949) in combining bad taste with good comedy.
December 20, 2014
A high comedy that is enlivened with cynicism, loaded with dramatic irony and shot through with a suspicion of social satire.
August 17, 2011
At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system.
March 26, 2009
Translation to a screen comedy has been effected with a mature wit.
September 01, 2011
Shot through with pitch black humour and biting satire on both the moribund upper class and the grasping venality of the suburban middle class.
August 18, 2011
Technically brilliant and savagely funny, serial killing has never looked so much fun.
May 20, 2003
The sly and adroit Mr. Guinness plays eight Edwardian fuddy-duds with such devastating wit and variety that he naturally dominates the film.
August 18, 2011
This was Robert Hamer's masterpiece...
February 09, 2006
It's a brilliantly cynical film without a hint of middle-class guilt or bitterness.
