Robert Hamer
3rd British Film Style:
1) Dry and satiric comedies
2) Made at the Ealing Studios by directors like Robert Hamer and Alexander
Mackendrick.
3)Many of these films feature Alec Guinness
4)He had the ability to play several types of comedic characters
Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949)
1)features Guiness in eight different roles.
2)Most of the film is told in flashback
3)as a man (Dennis Price) sentenced to death reflects on his life before his
execution.
Class clip:
In the following clip, Louis (Price) kills a few of the eight people ahead of him in succession to the dukedom, all played by Alec Guinness.
Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949):
Not the clip we saw in class but similar - This film is So Funny Click Here
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