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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 19 June, 1967 DVD Release : 10 April, 2001 |
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King Of Hearts description This film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. Of course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn't it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War I, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his u ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | King of Hearts: The message is in the madness. |
| Let me add my voice to the chorus of reviews singing praise for Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur). After apprenticing with legendary French film directors Henri Decoin, Claude Chabrol, and FranA ois Truffaut, de Broca made eight or nine films in the early Sixties before receiving international acclaim for his 1966 anti-war cult classic, King of Hearts. Set in the small French village of Marville near the end of World War I, the delightfully sweet film explores the insanity of war as Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates), a Clouseau-like Scottish soldier is sent to defuse a bomb left by the retreating German army to annihilate the town. Upon entering the abandoned village, Plumpick unknowingly leaves the door to the insane asylum open, allowing all of the patients leave the asylum and occupy the town. The bewildered soldier then falls for one of the patients, Coquelicot (GeneviA ve Bujold). As Plumpick attempts to find and disarm the bomb before it destroys their village, the lunatics coronate him their "King of Hearts." Upon its theatrical release the film became an instant hit with the anti-Vietnam war audience, and it's anti-war message remains relevant today.
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