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Movie Overview
Cast
• Alec Guinness
• Dennis Price
• Valerie Hobson
Director
• Robert Hamer
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1950)

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A-
"There's a surprise ending that helps make this one of Ealing's darkest comedies."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

3/4
"A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

8/10
"In a career noted for multiple characterizations, Alec Guinness had his finest hour in the dryly hilarious Ealing Studios comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ..."  Playback:stl  Sarah Boslaugh

A-
"Brilliantly sustains its outrageous black humor [with] a constant ironic contrast between the outward gentility… of its aristocratic milieu and the moral decadence… beneath it all."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus
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