KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a deft and dark comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. Louis (Dennis Price), the black sheep of the wealthy family, must murder all the heirs in order to inherit the D'Ascoyne fortune. Watch as the brilliant Guinness disappears into his various eccentric roles.

Alec Guiness' plays eight roles, which are:

1. Ethelred D'Ascoyne, The Duke of Chalfont
2. The Banker, Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
3. The Parson, Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne
4. The General, Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne
5. The Admiral, Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne
6. Young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne
7. Young Henry D'Ascoyne
8. Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne

DVD Features:

2-Disc
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage - 1. BBC programs on Alec Guinness & the history of Ealing Studios
Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Gallery - 1. Gallery of archival production and publicity photographs
Essay - 1. Philip Kemp - Film Critic

Alec Guinness: British Actor, BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Dennis Price: British Supporting Actor
Valerie Hobson: British Actress
Miles Malleson: Actor/Screenwriter/Playwright
Arthur Lowe: British Actor
Joan Greenwood: British Actress

Robert Hamer: British Director/Editor

Michael Balcon: British producer, THE 39 STEPS/TOM JONES

John Dighton: British Writer
Robert Hamer: British Director/Editor

"...Guinness gives the movie much of its comic accent....Price has fun too....The two actors find a comfortable rhythm..."
"...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery..."
"The literate, merry script stays spiky as an arrowhead..." -- Grade: B+
"Class is the great unmentionable of American movies, but the British positively swill in the subject. Seldom has it been treated with more elegance and bile than in Robert Hammer's 1949 Ealing comedy KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS."
"Intrinsically British and of its time, KIND HEARTS is arguably Ealing's brightest jewel."