Kind Hearts and Coronets
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Sep 21, 2026
AdrianHOST
For anyone familiar with classic British cinema, A-Link Studios is synonymous with cozy, eccentric humor.
ClaraHOST
They were the studio that made quirky, light-hearted comedies like Whiskey Galore or Kind Hearts and Coronets.
AdrianHOST
So for Ealing to pivot from those genteel satirical comedies to a dark, violent police procedural, I mean, that was an incredibly sharp turn.
ClaraHOST
It was a huge risk, and this shift was championed by the producer, Michael Balcom.
Troy HowarthHOST
Dennis Price was the star of Venus.
Troy HowarthHOST
The classic Ealing Studios comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Troy HowarthHOST
So, you know, great actor that Franco had a lot of respect for and a lot of affection for.
Troy HowarthHOST
Devil's Island Lovers is a very interesting film against one of those movies that exists in multiple versions.
EricHOST
Yes.
EricHOST
Uh, called kind hearts and coronets.
EricHOST
It is basically, no, it's basically the same movie, different ending
Brother JHOST
where that's give it away.
EricHOST
Uh, where apparently a coordinate is a kind of a crown, uh, But it features Dennis Price and Joan Greenwood as your Margaret Qualley and Glenn Powell characters.
EricHOST
But, you know, the rich family in this movie, there are seven of them.
EricHOST
And in Kind Hearts and Coronets, there are eight of them.
EricHOST
Well, in Kind Hearts and Coronets, all eight are played by Alec Guinness.
Tom AllenHOST
You know, when they ask you, like, what's your favourite comedy film? Obviously, everyone loves Airplane because, you know, it's so quick.
Tom AllenHOST
But then I always say Kind Hearts and Coronets because that sort of subtlety about it.
Tom AllenHOST
I just love it.
Mel GiedroycGUEST
Aunt Agatha.
Nathaniel MetcalfeGUEST
He's the first one who's killed.
Nathaniel MetcalfeGUEST
And Dennis Price is the guy from Kind Hearts and Coronets, which is almost like this film... you know, 20 years ago.
Nathaniel MetcalfeGUEST
It's another thing where he's killing off every member of her family.
Nathaniel MetcalfeGUEST
It's, it's almost like the same plot or that same kind of genre of revenge movies or something.
Gil AdlerHOST
Just to explore that
Alan KatzHOST
idea a little bit further, we had aspired to do something like Kind Hearts and Coronets, where Alec Guinness, who we almost got to work with in London, so close, so close, where we wanted one actor to play not just multiple parts, but multiple members of the same family.
Gil AdlerHOST
Yeah.
Gil AdlerHOST
That's one of my favorite movies, Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Gil AdlerHOST
And I remember when we sat there and we took a cue from Bob Zemeckis because we were looking at each other and we said, well, Bob always says, I want to do something different.
Gil AdlerHOST
And we looked at each other and said, we should try to do something different.
Gil AdlerHOST
Okay, what's different? What are we going to do? And then I think we started talking about Kind Hearts and Coronets and we said, wait a minute, we've never done a Tales from the Crypt where one actor played more than one part.
Gil AdlerHOST
Why not? And that's what started the whole thing, I think, if I remember correctly.
GregHOST
Hammer Productions has finally spared the hammer and applied some deft needlework and snug embroidery.
GregHOST
[laughs] Imagine a kind of..." And then this is in quotes, so I'm assuming it's another film, "Kind Hearts and Coronets detour.
GregHOST
Instead of a sly blade gently murdering legacy obstacles, there's a personable young baron, Ralph Bates, crisply dispatching friends and relatives whilst setting up a castle laboratory for you know what." I like that.
GregHOST
Crisply dispatching friends and relatives.
KarenHOST
He does.
GregHOST
"The screenplay, credited to Jeremy Burnham and Jimmy Sangster, the director, is as bright as can be, and the wry, pointed dialogue is nicely clipped off by a game cast including Graham James, Kate O'Mara, and Veronica, the lovely Veronica Carlson.
GregHOST
And lo and behold, there is Dennis Price, who bumped off eight Alec Guinnesses in, again, Kind Hearts and Coronets," whatever the hell that is.
GregHOST
"One scene when young Baron Victor Frankenstein casually eyes a brain prospect over the dinner table is funny enough to have come from the earlier film.
Lee ArnottHOST
Is that the one where he plays all the different parts?
Dave MoorHOST
No, that's Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Lee ArnottHOST
Yes,
Dave MoorHOST
that's
Dustin MelbardisHOST
We're all allowed our celebrity crushes.
Dustin MelbardisHOST
For me, we actually covered Kind Hearts and Coronets over the past year.
Dustin MelbardisHOST
And in that, Alec Guinness plays seven plus roles in the movie.
Dustin MelbardisHOST
Now, the reason I brought up his name is because people of my age don't no old Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Zaki HasanHOST
Thanks, Brian.
Zaki HasanHOST
P.S. It's based on a classic Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets, which is much loved in Britain.
Zaki HasanHOST
We used to watch it at least once a year.
Zaki HasanHOST
If you haven't seen it yet, well, there's a great movie waiting for you.
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