Kind Hearts And Coronets. The General D'Ascoyne (Alec Guinness). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL / Ealing Studios
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.
- Repeated Monday at 3:55pm on Film4
Streaming rank this week: 1,005
Kind Hearts And Coronets trivia
The film is loosely based on the 1907 Roy Horniman novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography Of A Criminal. In the book the title character, Israel Rank, is half-Jewish rather than half-Italian, parodying antisemitic feelings at the time.
Uncredited, Nancy Freeman-Mitford also worked on the Kind Hearts And Coronets script.