“He seemed a very pleasant fellow, and I regretted that our acquaintanceship had to be so short.” — Louis Mazzini Brilliantly written by its director, Robert Hamer, and John Dighton, Kind Hearts and Coronets is a piercingly funny consideration of upper-class British arrogance. The aristocratic D’Ascoynes family has disinherited one of their own because of […]
Daily Archives: July 19, 2009
Edward Dmytryk is doubly notorious: he was the only member of the Hollywood Ten who, post-prison, named names to HUAC in order to revive his Hollywood career. I have had my say about all this a number of times, and here I go repeating myself again: for me, the truly evil ones were those who […]
