Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Release: 1949-06-21
·Runtime: 104m
·★ 7.6
Comedy
Crime
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Ealing Studios
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Alec Guinness
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Clive Morton
as The Prison Governor
Cecil Ramage
as Crown Counsel
Audrey Fildes
as Mama
Carol White
as Young Sibella (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith
as Warder in Jail (uncredited)
Valerie Hobson
as Edith D'Ascoyne
Peter Gawthorne
as First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
Jeremy Spenser
as Young Louis (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
as Defence Counsel (uncredited)
Dennis Price
as Louis Mazzini / His Father
Joan Greenwood
as Sibella
Miles Malleson
as The Hangman
John Penrose
as Lionel Holland
Hugh Griffith
as Lord High Steward
John Salew
as Mr. Perkins
Arthur Lowe
as The Reporter
