Kind Hearts And Coronets
- 1949 film
Black Ealing comedy with eight classic characterisations by Alec Guinness as the noble victims of vengeance-seeking relative Dennis Price. Stars Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1949
- Stars
- Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton, Cecil Ramage and more
- Writers
- Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer and John Dighton
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Producers
- Michael Balcon and Michael Relph
- Company
Upon the death of his beloved mother, half-Italian, half-English nobleman Louis Mazzini resolves to seek revenge upon his estranged aristocratic family for ostracising her for marrying for love, and for denying his existence.
Through a series of plots and happy coincidences, Mazzini brings about and observes the demise of an array of members of the family he has never met, edging ever-closer towards becoming the Duke of Chalfont himself.
Meanwhile, the softly-spoken former department store clerk is taunted by Sibella, his beguiling and manipulative childhood sweetheart who married another man despite his warnings, and is now deeply regretful of her choices.
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Additional details
- Tagline
- He chopped down the family tree...; A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 106 minutes
- UK release
- Thursday 23rd June 1949
- Distributors
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
- Soundtrack
- Music by Ernest Irving.
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Thursday 30th November 2023 at 2:50pm on Film4
- Friday 24th November 2023 at 4:35pm on Film4
- Friday 22nd September 2023 at 3:00pm on TPTV
Recording details
- Ealing Studios
- Leeds Castle - D'Ascoyne estate