Kind Hearts and Coronets

Movie

1949

1h 44m

English

Comedy, Crime

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

Movie

1949

1h 44m

English

Comedy, Crime

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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

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Dennis Price

Louis Mazzini / His Father

Alec Guinness

The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / Th...

Sibella

Edith D'Ascoyne

Mama

The Hangman

The Prison Governor

Lionel Holland

Crown Counsel

Lord High Steward

Mr. Perkins

Inspector Burgoyne

The Farmer

The Schoolmistress

Maud Redpole

The Girl in the Punt

The Reporter

First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncr...

Molly Hamley-Clifford

Lady Redpole (uncredited)

Leslie Handford

Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)

Cavan Malone

Young Graham (uncredited)

Jeremy Spenser

Young Louis (uncredited)

Carol White

Young Sibella (uncredited)

Laurence Naismith

Warder in Jail (uncredited)

Gordon Phillott

Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)

Directed By: Robert Hamer

Written By: Robert Hamer (Screenplay), John Dighton (Screenplay), + 2 more

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Juliosoft says...

10 years ago

Very good and funny movie, remarkable script and an outstanding Alec Guinness

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soonertbone says...

10 months ago

Amazing to see Alec Guinness play eight different roles--I had no idea. That was a whole lot of fun, but the rest of the movie never quite came together for me. I think the biggest factor was Dennis Price's lack of charisma in the main role--if you're going to spend the whole movie killing innocent people, I need to have some stake in the fight. I don't necessarily need to like the character, but there needs to be a sense of understanding. (I didn't love Monsieur Verdoux, for example, but I think Chaplin tried to address this concern.) Here, it all just felt unpleasant and unrewarding. I do wish I saw Joan Greenwood in more things though.

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Onofre Bouvilla says...

3 years ago

Level "Excellent" • 8 :heart: • Recommended.

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Nutshell

4 years ago

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 ro More

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

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" fam More

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Juno78

4 weeks ago

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 ha More

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