Kind Hearts and Coronets

U

Duration: 

106 minutes

Date of release: 

Thursday, June 23, 1949

Cast: 

Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton, John Penrose, Cecil Ramage, Hugh Griffith

Director: 

Robert Hamer

Writer(s): 

Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Nancy Mitford

Cinematographer: 

Douglas Slocombe

Music: 

Ernest Irving

Producer(s): 

Michael Balcon

Genre(s): 

Comedy
Crime
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, the D’Ascoynes rejected her and Louis. Once an adult, Louis decides to avenge his mother and himself, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor, all famously played by Alec Guinness, is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal. Louis employs a variety of imaginative murder techniques in order to achieve his aim, and gradually his goal seems to be moving towards his grasp.
Certificate:
U
Duration:
106 minutes
Date of release
Thursday, 23 June 1949
Cast
Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton, John Penrose, Cecil Ramage, Hugh Griffith
Director:
Robert Hamer
Screenplay
Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Nancy Mitford
Cinematographer
Douglas Slocombe
Music
Ernest Irving
Producer(s)
Michael Balcon
Genre(s)
Comedy, Crime
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