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April 2, 2023... #movieoftheday is Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
"Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film. It features Dennis Price , Joan Greenwood , Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness ; Guinness plays EIGHT characters . The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman . It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family and take the dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.
" Michael Balcon , the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of Kind Hearts and Coronets , appointed Robert Hamer as director. Hamer thought it an interesting project with possibilities of using the English language in a unique way. Filming took place from September 1948 at Leeds Castle and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios. The themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between classes.
"Kind Hearts and Coronets was released on 13 June 1949 in the United Kingdom, and was well received by the critics. It has continued to receive favourable reviews over the years and, in 1999, it was number six in the British Film Institute 's rating of the Top 100 British films . In 2005, it was included in Time 's list of the top 100 films since 1923." - #wikipedia
PLOT
"In Edwardian England , Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, 10th Duke of Chalfont, is in prison, awaiting his hanging for a murder he did not commit, the following morning. As he writes his memoirs, a flashback ensues…
"Moments before his hanging, the discovery of his victim’s suicide note secures his release... When a reporter tells him that Tit-Bits magazine wishes to publish his memoirs, Louis suddenly remembers that he has left them behind in his cell." - more at #wikipedia
The lasting memory of this movie is that Alec Guiness plays EIGHT characters!
"Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film. It features Dennis Price , Joan Greenwood , Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness ; Guinness plays EIGHT characters . The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman . It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family and take the dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.
" Michael Balcon , the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of Kind Hearts and Coronets , appointed Robert Hamer as director. Hamer thought it an interesting project with possibilities of using the English language in a unique way. Filming took place from September 1948 at Leeds Castle and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios. The themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between classes.
"Kind Hearts and Coronets was released on 13 June 1949 in the United Kingdom, and was well received by the critics. It has continued to receive favourable reviews over the years and, in 1999, it was number six in the British Film Institute 's rating of the Top 100 British films . In 2005, it was included in Time 's list of the top 100 films since 1923." - #wikipedia
PLOT
"In Edwardian England , Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, 10th Duke of Chalfont, is in prison, awaiting his hanging for a murder he did not commit, the following morning. As he writes his memoirs, a flashback ensues…
"Moments before his hanging, the discovery of his victim’s suicide note secures his release... When a reporter tells him that Tit-Bits magazine wishes to publish his memoirs, Louis suddenly remembers that he has left them behind in his cell." - more at #wikipedia
The lasting memory of this movie is that Alec Guiness plays EIGHT characters!
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