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Jun 13, 2024 · While he was too gentlemanly to make any direct comparisons, Guinness might have had one in mind: his work with writer-director Robert Hamer. “We spoke the same language and laughed at the same things,” Guinness wrote in his autobiography Blessings in Disguise.
Jun 23, 2024 · But Ealing Studios still had more up its sleeve, as on 13th June 1949, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets first opened to audiences. Three quarters of a century on, the film remains incredibly watchable and is widely regarded the greatest British comedy film ever made.
Jun 10, 2024 · Beneath its bright comic surface, Kind Hearts and Coronets is a dark, tragic film about a young man whose disappointment with the cruelty of the world causes him to become murderously cruel himself. Hamer knew how to put his pain into his work.
6 days ago · A British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel of the same name, the slice-of-life film noir It Always Rains on Sunday is a movie directed by Robert Hamer. The story revolves around an ...
Jun 10, 2024 · This is never more apparent than in Robert Hamer’s murderous classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, which first premiered 75 years ago on 13 June 1949.
Jun 9, 2024 · Formerly an associate writer for the now-retired Awards Circuit, Robert Hamer has returned to obsessively writing about movies and crusading against category fraud instead of going to therapy. Join him, won't you, in this unorthodox attempt at mental alleviation?
2 days ago · Roger Ascham believed that Robert Dudley possessed a rare talent for languages and writing, including in Latin, regretting that his pupil had done himself harm by preferring mathematics. Robert learned the craft of the courtier at the courts of Henry VIII, and especially Edward VI, among whose companions he served.
