Kind Hearts and Coronets

Released

June 21, 1949

Runtime: 1h 44m

Kind Hearts and Coronets
EnglishComedyCrime

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.

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Cast & Crew

  • Dennis Price

    Dennis Price

    Louis Mazzini / His Father

  • Alec Guinness

    Alec Guinness

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

  • Joan Greenwood

    Joan Greenwood

    Sibella

  • Valerie Hobson

    Valerie Hobson

    Edith D'Ascoyne

  • Audrey Fildes

    Audrey Fildes

    Mama

  • Miles Malleson

    Miles Malleson

    The Hangman

  • Clive Morton

    Clive Morton

    The Prison Governor

  • John Penrose

    John Penrose

    Lionel Holland

  • Cecil Ramage

    Cecil Ramage

    Crown Counsel

  • Hugh Griffith

    Hugh Griffith

    Lord High Steward

  • John Salew

    John Salew

    Mr. Perkins

  • EM

    Eric Messiter

    Inspector Burgoyne

  • LE

    Lyn Evans

    The Farmer

  • BL

    Barbara Leake

    The Schoolmistress

  • PC

    Peggy Ann Clifford

    Maud Redpole

  • AV

    Anne Valery

    The Girl in the Punt

  • Arthur Lowe

    Arthur Lowe

    The Reporter

  • Peter Gawthorne

    Peter Gawthorne

    First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)

  • Robert Hamer

    Robert Hamer

    Director

  • JD

    John Dighton

    Screenplay

  • Robert Hamer

    Robert Hamer

    Screenplay

Media

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