Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
IMDB #187 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/]

The Gist:
Kind Hearts is a witty, or I guess I should say "cheeky", little British film that features a plot of gleeful revenge against a family whose members are killed off one by one. Each member of the family, eight in total, are all played by Alec Guiness who I like more and more with each stuffy British role I watch of his. Generally, it's hard to get behind the protagonists revenge plot because while most of the family are intolerable rich snobs, there are a couple who are genuinely nice people, and it seems to make little difference to the protagonist who is only focused on destroying them all in order to become duke. Then of course you have a dispassionate love triangle between the unsuspecting widow of one of the nicer men he's killed and his childhood crush that married someone else and now fools around with him on the side. Honestly, if it wasn't for great writing, for dry wit and an interest in how things played out, there's really not a lot to root for in this film. Credit that writing for how much I ended up enjoying the whole thing.