Los Angeles Times
"...Guinness gives the movie much of its comic accent....Price has fun too....The two actors find a comfortable rhythm..." 08/10/1990 p.F25Sight and Sound
"...Throughout the movie Hamer plays elegantly malicious variations on this theme of class snobbery..." 10/01/2002 p.66 Entertainment Weekly
"The literate, merry script stays spiky as an arrowhead..." -- Grade: B 03/03/2006 p.89 New York Times
"Class is the great unmentionable of American movies, but the British positively swill in the subject. Seldom has it been treated with more elegance and bile than in Robert Hammer's 1949 Ealing comedy KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS." 02/28/2006 p.E8 Empire
"Intrinsically British and of its time, KIND HEARTS is arguably Ealing's brightest jewel." 11/01/2008 p.199 BBCi Films 9 of 10
It's a treat to have a comedy as involving as a drama. You care about Louis and his cause even though it's a tale of class differences that was dated even on release (made in 1949, it's set around 1900). Louis should be hateful: he's one of the cinema's first serial killers. But as would not happen for another 50 years until The Talented Mr Ripley, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" is a film where you want the murderer to escape. - William Gallagher
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