Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Starring:
- Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, (more)
- Director(s):
- Robert Hamer
- Category:
- Comedy
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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood friend who ends up marrying a dullard, and Edith (Valerie Hobson), the beautiful widow of one of his victims with whom he plans to share his title. But just when Louis is ready to assume the D'Ascoyne mantle, a bizarre irony strikes. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 106 mins
Complete Cast of Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Dennis Price - Louis Mazzini
- Alec Guinness - Ascoyne d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Gen. d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Duke of Chalfont
- Joan Greenwood - Sibella
- Arthur Lowe - The Reporter
- John Penrose - Lionel
- John Salew - Mr. Perkins
- Anne Valery - The Girl in the Punt
- Richard Wattis
- Audrey Fields - Mama
- Barbara Leake - The Schoolmistress
- Alec Guinness - Admiral d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Canon d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Lord d'Ascoyne
- Alec Guinness - Henry d'Ascoyne
- Valerie Hobson - Edith D'Ascoyne
- Miles Malleson - Hangman
- Clive Morton - Prison Governor
- Cecil Ramage - Crown Counsel
- Peggy Ann Clifford - Maud
- Eric Messiter - Burgoyne
- Lynn Evans - The Farmer
- Hugh Griffith - Lord High Steward
- Director(s):
- Robert Hamer
- Writer(s):
- John Dighton, Robert Hamer
- Producer(s):
- Michael Balcon
- Categories:
- Comedy
- 1950 - National Board of Review - Best Actor
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