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Kind Hearts and Coronets review by from Reading, England

Great comedic murders? 1 November 2004
...tte, voluminous lady's fashions and hats to delight the eye. Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson (pre Profumo scandal days)are at their elegant best as the two ladies in our he... Read customer review

Q Planes review by medaris from Inverness

Decent 1930's thriller 20 July 2010
...s, 'The Avengers'. Laurence Olivier plays a pilot, and does well. I hadn't seen Valerie Hobson, the main female character before, and I must look out for her other films. ... Read customer review

Valerie Hobson - filmography

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, Beatrice Campbell
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
British comedy starring Alec Guinness as Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St. James, who believes in the notion of 'a girl in every port'. For Henry has a wife on both sides of the water. There is Maude (Celia Johnson) in Gibraltar and Nita (Yvonne DeCarlo) in Tangiers. Everything is perfect ..read more »

70% from 401 members

The Card (1952)
Starring: Glynis Johns, Edward Chapman, Alec Guinness
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young clerk Alec Guinness works his way up the financial ladder until he has become a successful and highly respected loan officer. Actually, Guinness is not as above-board as the ..read more »

66% from 62 members
Not available for rental

The Man in the White Suit on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

70% from 3,576 members

The Man in the White Suit - Blu-ray (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

82% from 42 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Classic Ealing comedy in which an embittered aristocrat sets out to murder the eight heirs that stand between him and succession to the family title. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) holds no love for the aristocratic family he counts as relations, the D'Ascoynes. The family cast his mother out when ..read more »

83% from 309 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-..read more »

73% from 9,502 members
Currently unavailable

The Rocking Horse Winner on DVD (1949)
Starring: Ronald Squire, John Mills, Charles Goldner
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Certificate:
Anthony Pelissier writes and directs this dark fantasy drama based on a short story by D.H. Lawrence. An adolescent boy, Paul (John Howard Davies), lives with his upper class family in London. His mother, Hester (Valerie Hobson), is a compulsive shopper, continually spending far beyond the family's ..read more »

68% from 25 members

Train of Events on DVD (1949)
Starring: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton
Certificate:
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

66% from 183 members

Stewart Granger Collection - Blanche Fury on DVD (1948)
Starring: Stewart Granger, James Mason, Valerie Hobson
Director: Marc Allegret, Arthur Crabtree, Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
Ambitious poor relation Blanche Fullerton accepts a job as governess from her wealthy cousins who have adopted the name Fury since they acquired the ancestral home of the Fury family. Blanche plots to become the lady of the manor but her illicit passion for the vengeful, obsessed Philip Thorn sets ..read more »

67% from 40 members

Great Expectations on DVD (1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »

72% from 5,619 members

Great Expectations - Blu-ray (1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »

75% from 392 members

The Years Between on DVD (1946)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Esma Cannon, Dulcie Gray
Director: Compton Bennett
Certificate:

61% from 97 members

Unpublished Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Roland Culver, Richard Greene, Brefni O'Rorke
Director: Harold French
Certificate:
Wartime spy thriller. Richard Greene stars as war correspondent Bob Randall, who returns from Dunkirk to report on Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg, and to deliver a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe. He is outraged to discover that ..read more »

58% from 63 members

Contraband (1940)
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started).

62% from 38 members
Currently unavailable

Q Planes on DVD (1939)
Starring: Frank Fox, Sandra Storme, Hay Petrie
Director: Arthur B. Woods, Tim Whelan
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Wartime spy comedy starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Valerie Hobson. Scotland Yard's Major Hammond (Richardson) is called in to investigate the disappearance of several missing British planes. Teaming up with dashing pilot Tony McVane (Olivier), Hammond discovers that enemy agents are ..read more »

68% from 73 members

Werewolf Of London on DVD (1935)
Starring: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
Director: Stuart Walker
Certificate:
While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is attacked in the dark by a strange animal..

58% from 215 members

The Bride Of Frankenstein on DVD (1935)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
This sequel to 'Frankenstein' (1931) begins with the work's author, Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester), revealing to Lords Byron and Shelley that there is still more of the tale to be told... Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is recuperating from the events of the first film, believing his ..read more »

71% from 2,453 members

The Bride Of Frankenstein - Blu-ray (1935)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
This sequel to 'Frankenstein' (1931) begins with the work's author, Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester), revealing to Lords Byron and Shelley that there is still more of the tale to be told... Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is recuperating from the events of the first film, believing his ..read more »

78% from 43 members

Voice Of Merrill on DVD
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Edward Underdown, Henry Kendall
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
British thriller from director John Gilling. The police face a challenging mystery after the discovery of a murdered female blackmailer. Her lover, a young and talented writer (Edward Undertown), is a suspect, along with several other people such as the girl's employer and an established, self-..read more »

60% from 80 members

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Kay Walsh, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Classic collection of the early films of Alec Guinness. In the classic Ealing comedy, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949), young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis ..read more »

76% from 1,014 member

Valerie Hobson facts

5 most recent films

Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars
The Card - 3.5 stars
The Man in the White Suit - 3.5 stars
The Man in the White Suit - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - 3.5 stars
Great Expectations - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Contraband - 3.0 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Blanche Fury - 3.5 stars
The Rocking Horse Winner - 3.5 stars
The Bride Of Frankenstein - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Man in the White Suit - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 13 times - show films
Kay Walsh - 8 times - show films
Cecil Parker - 8 times - show films
Dennis Price - 8 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Henry Cass - 8 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 8 times - show films
Alexander Mackendrick - 8 times - show films
David Lean - 3 times - show films
Tim Whelan - 2 times - show films

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