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Film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked Kind Hearts and Coronets as the sixth best British film, placing director Robert Hamer alongside the elite likes of Hitchcock, Lean, and Carol Reed. Kind Hearts is Hamer's high-water mark and the highlight of his mini-retrospective at the BAMcinématek. The black comedy tracks Louis, a deadbeat distant relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne who plots to take the Duke's place. Eight other potential heirs — all played with droll, cross-dressed perfection by Alec Guinness — stand in the way of his crowning achievement, and Louis kills 'em all. Hamer drenches each of Guinness' demises in ageless wit and sophistication.

– Jason Jude Chan

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