And a touch of vintage English cynicism comes courtesy of Alec Guinness, Dennis Price and director Robert Hamer, in Ealing's enduring
satire Kind Hearts and Coronets, now re-released.
Too often, the picture lives and dies on its ability to keep the pace fluid — but just that need for momentum suggests something amiss at the
heart of the piece, a certain surface tension that would pop should the rock - star protagonist we envy ever collide against the
satire of the
kind of colossal moral vacuity required of his vocation.