This September, Optimum Releasing will bring Kind Hearts and Coronets to Blu-ray. This dark Ealing comedy focuses on Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price, A Canterbury Tale) - the black sheep of the aristocratic D'Ascoyne dynasty - who decides to reclaim his inheritance by murdering the eight heirs succeeding him in the family line. The film contains a tour-de-force performance from Alec Guinness (Star Wars) as all eight heirs.
Optimum presents Kind Hearts and Coronets in a new 2K digital restoration preserving its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. Additionally, the Blu-ray comes with a number of supplementary materials, including:
Audio Commentary with Peter Bradshaw, Terence Davies, and Matthew Guinness
John Landis Introduction
Dennis Price: Those British Faces featurette
BBC Radio 3 Essay
Alternative American Ending
Restoration Comparison
Behind the Scenes
Stills Gallery
Excerpt from BECTU Interview with cinematographer Douglas Slocombe
Trailer
Kind Hearts and Coronets streets on 5 September. Optimum will also give the film a limited theatrical re-release beginning 19 August, following the premiere of the restored print in Henley on the 18th.