Actor Dennis Price (1915)

School for Scoundrels (1960) is a British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. Henry Palfrey, the head of a family firm in London, travels to Yeovil to enroll in the College of Lifemanship, led by Mr. S. Potter. Arriving late, he overhears Potter explaining his focus on the science of ‘being one up on your opponents at all times’ to new students. Palfrey learns this firsthand during an object lesson when he unknowingly loses a name-calling game in an interview with Potter. As they discuss Palfrey’s reasons for enrollment, it becomes clear that a woman is involved. Through a flashback, Palfrey then ...

In the timeless classic Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), directed by Robert Hamer, we are transported to Edwardian England where Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, 10th Duke of Chalfont, finds himself imprisoned awaiting execution for a murder he may or may not have committed. As he reflects upon his life in memoir form, we are taken back in time to see how events unfolded. Louis’s mother was the youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Chalfont, but she scandalously eloped with an Italian opera singer named Mazzini and was subsequently disowned by her family. Sadly, Mazzini passed away soon after Louis’s birth, ...