Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
He chopped down the family tree...
106 min
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.
- Release date
- June 23, 1949
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Dennis Price as Louis
- Alec Guinness as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke
- Joan Greenwood as Sibella
- Valerie Hobson as Edith
- Audrey Fildes as Mama
- Miles Malleson as The Hangman
- Clive Morton as The Prison Governor
- John Penrose as Lionel
- Cecil Ramage as Crown Counsel
- Hugh Griffith as Lord High Steward
- John Salew as Mr. Perkins
- Lyn Evans as The Farmer
- Barbara Leake as The Schoolmistress
- Peggy Ann Clifford as Maud Redpole
- Anne Valery as The Girl in the Punt
- Arthur Lowe as The Reporter
- Peter Gawthorne as First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
- Molly Hamley-Clifford as Lady Redpole (uncredited)
- Leslie Handford as Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)
- Cavan Malone as Young Graham (uncredited)
- Jeremy Spenser as Young Louis (uncredited)
- Carol White as Young Sibella (uncredited)
- Laurence Naismith as Warder in Jail (uncredited)
- Gordon Phillott as Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)
- Richard Wattis as Defence Counsel (uncredited)
- Harold Young as Captain (uncredited)
- Norman Fisher as Member of D'Ascoyne Household (uncredited)
- Alec Guinness as The Banker
- Alec Guinness as The Parson
Crew
- Robert Hamer · Director
- Roy Horniman · Writer
- Robert Hamer · Writer
- John Dighton · Writer
- Michael Balcon · Producer
- Douglas Slocombe · Cinematographer
- Peter Tanner · Editor