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Kind Hearts and Coronets

7.7

Released June 21, 1949Runtime 1h 44min

He chopped down the family tree...

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Ealing Studios

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Finances

Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

Stream

Rent

Videos

Cast

Dennis PriceLouis Mazzini / His Father

Alec GuinnessThe D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

Joan GreenwoodSibella

Valerie HobsonEdith D'Ascoyne

Audrey FildesMama

Miles MallesonThe Hangman

Clive MortonThe Prison Governor

John PenroseLionel Holland

Cecil RamageCrown Counsel

Hugh GriffithLord High Steward

John SalewMr. Perkins

Eric MessiterInspector Burgoyne

Lyn EvansThe Farmer

Barbara LeakeThe Schoolmistress

Peggy Ann CliffordMaud Redpole

Anne ValeryThe Girl in the Punt

Arthur LoweThe Reporter

Peter GawthorneFirst Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)

Molly Hamley-CliffordLady Redpole (uncredited)

Leslie HandfordGamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)

Cavan MaloneYoung Graham (uncredited)

Jeremy SpenserYoung Louis (uncredited)

Carol WhiteYoung Sibella (uncredited)

Laurence NaismithWarder in Jail (uncredited)

Gordon PhillottClerk of Parliament (uncredited)

Richard WattisDefence Counsel (uncredited)

Harold YoungCaptain (uncredited)

Crew

Robert HamerDirector

Norman PriggenAssistant Director

Phyllis CrockerContinuity

Roy HornimanNovel

John DightonScreenplay

Robert HamerScreenplay

Nancy MitfordScreenplay

Michael BalconProducer

Michael RelphAssociate Producer

Leigh AmanUnit Production Manager

Hal MasonProduction Supervisor

Ernest IrvingOriginal Music Composer

Douglas SlocombeDirector of Photography

Peter TannerEditor

Anthony MendlesonCostume Design

William KellnerArt Direction

Barbara BarnardHairstylist

Harry FramptonMakeup Artist

Pearl OrtonHairstylist

Ernest TaylorMakeup Artist

Daphne MartinHairstylist

Sydney PearsonSpecial Effects

Roy BakerAssistant Editor

John JympsonAssistant Editor

Seth HoltEditorial Services

Bert DaveyAssistant Art Director

Jeff SeaholmeCamera Operator

Stephen DalbySound Director

Geoffrey DickinsonSpecial Effects

Ernest IrvingConductor

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMusic

John W. MitchellSound Recordist

Philharmonia OrchestraMusic

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Reviews

This is hands down my favorite Ealing Studios comedy, as I'm sure it is for many others. A most exquisite and brilliantly dark comic showcase, most especially for Dennis Price who is outstanding here in the lead role of Louis, and for some young actor named Alec Guinness who plays a whopping 8 r...

The best, I think, of the Ealing Comedies features a wonderful Dennis Price as the hard-done-by aristocrat who sets out to exact the most spectacular series of acts of vengeance on those whom he blames for the plights of his childhood. Alec Guinness plays the entire (somewhat doomed) "D'Ascoyne" fa...

For everything that I'd heard about this film, I was left underwhelmed. I'd always heard that Alec Guinness was superb, playing multiple characters, but most of them were on screen for just a moment. Yes, the makeup artist did a good job making them all visually distinct, but only a couple really h...