I'm joined by my friend Harry Marks; we're sharpening our arrows and polishing our family crests as we dive into Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), a comedy as refined as it is ruthless. Directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as eight doomed aristocrats.
We also discuss the Marx Brothers and the rhythm of comedy. Does Kind Hearts and Coronets break that rhythm for its own level of wit, or is it so dry you forgot to laugh?
Is it a biting satire of class and cruelty disguised as the charming foibles of our main antagonist? Or a velvet-gloved slap to the face of British respectability?
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