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Actors: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kind Hearts and Coronets |
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Louis Mazzini (played by Dennis Price) is the son of an Italian singer and a British woman of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family. The d'Ascoyne family disowned his mother after she eloped with the Italian, so instead of enjoying the riches and privileges that should rightly be his, Louis lives a life of low income and limited opportunity. Had his mother remained in favor with the family, he would have been in line to inherit the crowning position of the d'Ascoyne family - an illustrious dukedom.
Two events turn his resentment towards the d'Ascoyne family into an urge to murder. First, a childhood friend refuses his offer of marriage because she thinks he's too poor; secondly, when his mother dies, the d'Ascoynes refuse to bury her in the family vault. Louis then sets out to murder all the d'Ascoynes standing between himself and the dukedom.
This is a comedy because all of the d'Ascoynes that Louis intends to murder - including Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne – are played by Alec Guinness! And none of these d'Ascoynes, from the stupid clergyman to the blowhard general to the tactless duke, intend to give Louis an easy time in disposing of them.
--Esther, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kind Hearts and Coronets |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1900-1920's
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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