Kind Hearts and Coronets

7.6 1949 Robert Hamer 1h 44m
Comedy Crime
Kind Hearts and Coronets

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 f

Cast

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

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