I recently ordered the DVD
"Kind Hearts and Coronets" (made 1949) .
Best version DVD is one by Criterion Collection. There is a BD --can't recall the maker-- that gets a lot of 👎).
It is a wickedly funny British dark comedy with a great ending twist.
I have watched it at least a half dozen times, but back then I rented it (when you could rent Tapes and DVDs).
But now I own it...yeeeeessssss!!! 😁
And why (you may well ask) would anyone re-watch a movie that has a twist at the ending, once one knows the twist and the surprise factor is gone?
I will tell (and show) you.
For this reason:
Remember these pics from the other thread?
Alec Guinness portrays eight different characters in the movie (in that last pic he plays a woman).
They are all members of the D'Ascoyne family whom the protagonist (played by Dennis Price) has decided to murder because they stand in the way of his inheritance, he also a D'Ascoyn but much farther down the trough.
The story is told in flashback by the murderer, now in prison, convicted, and awaiting execution by hanging.
And that is all I'm going to say about the plot.
Alec Guinness, as always, shines. And that is what makes it worth re-watching, even if it weren't a very entertaining story. But it's that too. 🙂