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The first Ealing comedy. A group of boys discover crooks have hidden coded instructions in their favourite comic and take exception to such cheek. Sim is naturally superb as the avuncular, amiable and yet still slightly menacing writer. Blitz-decimated London is the cleverly used setting and the final scene with the crooks being chased by thousands of boys through London's Docklands is memorable.

 

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Director Charles Crichton
Starring Alastair Sim, Jack Warner

 

Genre Classic Film

 

Country UK Language English   Year 1947

 

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Certificate U   Length 82 mins   Label OPTIM
Cat No OPTD0689   Format DVD   Black & White
Region2    

 

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Article - "Ealing Comedies" by Graeme Hobbs
Tuesday 1st June 2004

Kind Hearts And Coronets is not only still as beautifully wicked as you remember but gets better with renewed viewing. Most well-known for being the film in which Alec Guinness plays all eight members of the d'Ascoyne family (even appearing as six of them at t...  View article in full

 

 

 

 

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