Robert Hamer
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It seems unfair to compare most any movie to Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers or to Touch of Evil, but this one begs for such through, for example, specific reference to that latter, also 1950s Welles thriller.
No Other Choice (2025)
Directed by Park Chan-wook
influenced by Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Themes Plot
To that end, it recalls the classic 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (although the murders there were admittedly more broadly comedic).
If you’ve seen Robert Hamer’s seminal Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, this might sound familiar. That centres around an obscure member of a noble dynasty who must kill the eight members ahead of him in the line of succession to inherit his fortune.
That face belongs to Rory Kinnear, pulling off enough roles to rival Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets , Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove , or, if you want to get really granular, Dick Van Dyke in the ‘Inheritance Death’ episode of Diagnosis Murder .
Despite its Twitter bait of a title, despite its tendency to feel more like a conversation-starter than a fully realized vision, and even despite its winking #NotAllMen of a conceit — which finds actor Rory Kinnear offering an amusingly hellish twist on the old Alec Guinness routine from “Kind Hearts and Coronets” by playing all but one of the male roles — “Men” is less of a supernatural pivot towards social commentary than it is an uncharacteristically grounded step closer towards the heart of Garland’s usual obsession: Self-identity in the face of the singularity.
“Knives Out” leaves them bamboozled and marooned, but, if that response strikes you as insufficiently robust, I recommend “Kind Hearts and Coronets.”
The two most notable actors in the second category are Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, and it is in their company that Sacha Baron Cohen belongs, though he has yet to make his Kind Hearts and Coronets or Dr Strangelove .
I think of it as more akin to old Ealing Studios comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets or The Ladykillers, where the plotters are so ridiculous and prone to failure, you can hardly take their criminal plans seriously.
Of course, the title of this British comedy indicates that we will not get another “Kind Hearts and Coronets.”
Ready or Not (2019)
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
influenced by Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Themes
With their mix of upper-class pomposity and casual bloodshed, the Le Domas family calls to mind a rich tradition of blackhearted drawing room farces, from Kind Hearts and Coronets to Clue.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
influenced by Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Characters
Use photos of Sellers in each of his three characterizations (this first made a star of Alec Guiness in his seven roles in "Kind Hearts and Coronets").