Paul Humphreys rambles on....

Paul Humphreys rambles on....
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Friday June 16, 2006

Kind hearts and Coronets

Alec Guiness plays all eight members of the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family murdered by the suave Louis Mazzina in order to inherit a dukedom - avenging the wrongs against his mother who married 'beneath' herself and was cut off from the family. Ealing films Joan Grenwood is Mazzinis girlfriend and Dennis Price is excellent as Mazzini. He keeps track of the remaining family tree on the back of a picture in his flat.

He starts doing small menial jobs but works his way up -ending up working for the family firm. He gets arrested and found guilty of a death he had nothing to do with and before his execution he writes a diary of the events... He is then let off the murder and after he has left prison he then realises that he left the diary in the cell. The film stops at this point - leaving us to decide if he ends being able to get the diary before the authorities read it and re-arrest him...

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