It’s likely that 95 percent of the people who go to see “How to Make a Killing” will never have seen, or even heard of, “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” the 1949 British black comedy it’s a remake of — or, I should say, a reimagining, since for once that marketing-spin term applies. The original film, one of the gems of the Ealing Studio era, is considered a classic, and rightfully so, but it’s a classic with a unique flavor of ice-cold debonair English misanthropy. It’s like “And Then There Were None” rewritten by P.G. Wodehouse; it basically puts the audience in the shoes of a civilized serial killer — the conniving hero, Louis (played with delectable matter-of-factness by Dennis Price), who decides to murder, one by one, all eight of the aristocratic relatives who are due to inherit the family fortune before him. The relatives are all played by Alec Guinness…
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