In prison awaiting execution the next morning Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, sets down on paper the events that led him to his current situation. His mother has been banished from her family, the D'Ascoynes, after she married Louis' father who was considered far beneath her. After her death, the D'Ascoynes refused permission for her to be buried in the family crypt. Louis then plots his revenge - and kills all those ahead of him in the succession until he becomes the Duke. Along the way, he becomes involved with the married Sibelia who, when spurned, makes sure he ends up in prison. The day before his execution Sibelia recants her testimony saving him not only from the gallows but also sets him free. Once outside the prison however, he realizes he's forgotten one little thing........
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Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 BrRip Mp4 Lee1001
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets
Alec Guinness plays all the members of the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family in this pitch black British comedy
The most sophisticated and blackest of the Ealing comedies, Hamer's immaculate, serial-killer romp gives the splendid Guinness the roles of a lifetime. Price plays the vengeful Louis Mazzini, an aristocrat manque ruthlessly determined to get his own back on the d'Ascoyne family who drove his mother to an early grave, and deprived her and him of their rightful station in life. Starting out as a humble clerk in the d'Ascoyne family business, Louis resolves to kill each of the family members who stand between him and his unlikely accession to the dukedom of Chalfont.
In a remarkable portmanteau of performances, ranging from comic caricatures to rounded, touching characters, Guinness relishes his chance to show off, playing all eight doomed d'Ascoynes. The story is told in flashback as Louis, on the eve of his execution for a murder that was, ironically, a suicide, reads through his own memoirs. The film is beautifully designed and shot, the script witty, sexy and supremely cynical
A very strong candidate for the best of the films made by Ealing Studios, Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of the all-time classics of British comedy, a superlative blend of social satire and black comedy with an irresistible appeal. Hardly anything evokes the dignified yet slightly musty aura of the English stately home and the iniquities of the British class system more forcefully than this deliciously subversive film.
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