rcj (12/01/82)
I have seen two movies in which Alec Guiness played several parts each. I remember that one of them was called "Kind Hearts and Cornets" -- It was about a group of bank robbers who hide out in an old lady's house posing as a musical group. It was a rolicking comedy and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The other movie was about a young man in Austria? who could obtain a massive inheritance and/or a position on the throne of a country if he could get rid of the 23? people in line between him and his goal. In this movie, he played the young man, (his mother?), and all of the people that he was killing one by one. My question is, does anyone remember the name of the movie and ANY further details about it? Thanks very much in advance, Curtis Jackson (...!floyd!burl!rcj)
mmc (12/02/82)
#R:burl:-12200:zeppo:9400001:000:365 zeppo!mmc Dec 1 21:05:00 1982 I believe that the Alec Guiness movie in which he plays the leader of a gang of bank-robbers living as roomers in an old lady's house is 'The Lavender Hill Mob.' The Guiness movie in which he plays the remote heir to a (British) title and fortune, as well as the intermediate heirs whom he murders one by one, is 'Kind Hearts and Coronets.' Mark Chodrow BTL WH
kalash (12/02/82)
No, the Guiness movie about bank robbers living at the little old lady's house is "The Ladykillers", not "The Lavender Hill Mob" that's the one about stealing gold from a bank and sending it to france as fake Eiffel Towers. "Kind Hearts an Coronets" is indeed about a man who will become a Duke/Baron/... if he can kill the 10+ people who are in line to the inheritance before him. Alec played all the victims. Joe
carolt (12/02/82)
The Alec Guiness movie in which he plays the leader of a gang of bank robbers living as roomers in an old lady's house, is not 'The Lavender Hill Mob'. The movie is 'The Ladykillers'. The gang of bank robbers numbered five. One of the bank robbers was Alec Guiness (of course) and another was played by a very young Peter Sellers. I believe this was his first movie. The gang posed as musicians, each one carrying a stringed instrument case. Whenever they would plan their strategies in the old lady's house, they would play a record of Boccherini's string quintet to fool the old lady. By the end of the movie, you can whistle the whole darn first movement!