• Director(s)

    Robert Hamer

  • Production Year

    1949

  • Release date

    07/06/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    106m

  • Cast

    Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Hugh Griffith

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Kind Hearts And Coronets

brief racist language

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a British comedy, from 1949, in which the poor relative of a duke plots to inherit the family title by murdering the other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.…

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is a British comedy, from 1949, in which the poor relative of a duke plots to inherit the family title by murdering the other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

discrimination
In a conversation between the murderer and a woman, the number of people who have been killed are discussed with reference to the old counting rhyme 'Eeny Meeny Miny Mo', which includes the term 'n****r'. There is no racist intent in the use of the word, which reflects cultural attitudes of the time.
additional issues
There is very mild violence and threat in the playing out of the series of murders which are undetailed and embedded in the light comic context of the film. There are references to suicide in courtroom proceedings. There are also several scenes in which characters smoke cigarettes.

  • Director(s)

    Robert Hamer

  • Production Year

    1949

  • Release date

    07/06/2019

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    106m

  • Cast

    Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Miles Malleson, Hugh Griffith

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One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

brief racist language
Classified Date:
04/06/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
discrimination
In a conversation between the murderer and a woman, the number of people who have been killed are discussed with reference to the old counting rhyme 'Eeny Meeny Miny Mo', which includes the term 'n****r'. There is no racist intent in the use of the word, which reflects cultural attitudes of the time.
additional issues
There is very mild violence and threat in the playing out of the series of murders which are undetailed and embedded in the light comic context of the film. There are references to suicide in courtroom proceedings. There are also several scenes in which characters smoke cigarettes.
Contains infrequent mild discriminatory language
Classified Date:
19/07/2011
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Independent Cinema Office
discrimination
In a brief exchange, a woman recites the line of a country rhyme, "Eeny Meeny Miny Mo", to which a man replies "Catch a n****r by his toe". The term 'n****r' is then used a couple of times in order to describe the murdered victims of the Duke's family. The racist language is used in the context of a well known but outdated country rhyme that was socially acceptable at the time the film was made. There is no specific intention to cause offence and the language is not directed at another person or used in a threatening, aggressive, or derogatory fashion.
additional issues
There is mild threat when a man wields a sharp ornament at another man. There are also comic references to murder and killing, including in lines of dialogue such as "I shall blow your head off at once" and "I will kill you".
Classified Date:
27/04/1949
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
General Film Dist Ltd
Cuts:
This content received cuts or alterations as part of the classification process.
brief racist language
Classified Date:
29/04/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
discrimination
There is infrequent use of the racist term 'n****r'.
additional issues
There is very mild threat during scenes in which a man attempts to kill others. There are also undetailed references to suicide. There are scenes of smoking.
Classified Date:
14/08/2006
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Optimum Releasing
Classified Date:
22/03/2006
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
TPC / The Portman Consultancy
Contains mild violence
Classified Date:
08/12/1988
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd
violence
There are mild, comic scenes of violence, without graphic detail.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of racist language ('n****r'). Other issues include non-graphic verbal references to suicide.
Classified Date:
30/04/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
Paperwork Remarks:
Trailer

  • Classified date

    04/06/2019

  • BBFC reference

    CFF038303

  • Language

    English