Kind Hearts and Coronets is a black comedy, presented in a coolly elegant style with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. The title was taken from a Tennysonian couplet quoted by one of the characters: 'Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood'; Alec Guinness played no less than eight of the D'Ascoynes who stand between Louis and the dukedom. Yet the film is possessed and dominated by Dennis Price whose performance as Louis Mazzini is a tour-de-force.
1949 / 106 mins / Director: Robert Hammer / Cert: U / Optimum Releasing
