Friday, February 8, 2008

Kind hearts and coronets (1949) - classic satire starring Alec Guinness in multiple roles

Rating 8.4/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Robert Hamer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/

Cast

Alec Guinness ... The Duke/The Banker/The Parson/The General/The Admiral/Young Ascoyne/Young Henry/Lady Agatha
Dennis Price ... Louis
Valerie Hobson ... Edith
Joan Greenwood ... Sibella
Audrey Fildes ... Mama
Miles Malleson ... The Hangman
Clive Morton ... The Prison Governor
John Penrose ... Lionel

Description: Louis Mazzini's mother's frequent tales of how her titled D'Ascoyne family shunned her after she eloped with an Italian commoner causes a simmering resentment in him. On being spurned because of his lowly status by his lifetime (if devious and fickle) sweetheart Sibella he decides to permanently remove all the D'Ascoynes standing between him and the Dukedom. Becoming romantically involved with one of the widows he has created, he finds Sibella's jealousy could seriously threaten his grand design.

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Download links

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Video and audio information:

Video : 621 MB, 1594 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640*480 (4:3), XVID = XVID Mpeg-4
Audio : 74 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x2000 = AC3


English subtitles (SUB/IDX files) and sample (7 MB)

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

'elo
thanks for another great classic.
have this on vhs, but I'm sure this'll look a lot better.

I hope you won't mind my repeating a comment to your "La Belle et la bĂȘte" post, but I cannot be sure you got the original since there was no response to it.

"...I am having a problem with this movie (La Belle et la BĂȘte) - a character you use in the title is not "readable" by winRAR (3.7)so I can neither play it, move it, or even rename it within the rar.
can you either tell me how to overcome this limitation, or rename the movie and re-rar+upload them again?
would prefer a solution though, thanks either way, and again for your site."
Thanks.

OnlyOldMovies.blogspot.com said...

I will find my backup files and find out what is going on, but when i checked them before uploading, everything was OK

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot. Xvid, 25 fps. For turkish subtitle: http://www.divxplanet.com/indir.php?id=RFA2NTQ3NA==

Anonymous said...

'elo, thanks Just.
it's the first 'e' character in the word "Bete" with the thingy on the bottom - apparently a common enough letter in some parts of Europe. I've had the same problem before with a couple album downloads from yonder way. :- )
my windows xp (sp2) does not support it. I suppose users of macs and linux systems might not have a problem with it, but I'd be surprised to be the only windows user to have this problem.
the solution is likely a need to install a character set or language pack, but I don't know what exactly, or how to find out.
if you have any idea, please let me know - thanks very much again.

OnlyOldMovies.blogspot.com said...

I got my backup files and sucessfully extracted them so the problem may be with language pack , the movie is French, so that may be the solution to your problem, but I am no expert on this field, sorry, try avoid posting these "strange" letters in files in future

OnlyOldMovies.blogspot.com said...

Try install that language pack using Office instalation CD ( you have to open file with a text, switch on grammar checking and set the language to French, and when it ask you to install it, just provide Office CD, I think that is the way, but remember I am not that sure aboout that, just my guess

Anonymous said...

Thanks, I have been looking for this movie for over 10 years and at last I found it to round out my collection. Michael H.

Smoker said...

Thank you for this excellent movie and also for all the work you put into bring us these wonderful classics.

Anonymous said...

Excuse me, could someone please explain me how subtitles work. I heard that I must synchronize them with video file, but I have no idea how to do that.

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