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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British film of genre Drama directed by Robert Hamer released in USA on 14 june 1950 with Dennis Price
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 june 1950
Length 1h46
Directed by Robert Hamer
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Serial killer films
Rating79%
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British black comedy film of 1949 starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Valerie Hobson. Guinness famously plays eight members of the D'Ascoyne family. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman, with the screenplay written by Robert Hamer and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer. The film's title derives from Tennyson's poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere: "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood."
Kind Hearts and Coronets is listed in Time magazine's top 100 and also in the BFI Top 100 British films. In 2011 the film was digitally restored and re-released in selected British cinemas.
Synopsis
In Edwardian Britain, Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), tenth Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting his death by hanging the next morning. Most of the film consists of a flashback in which Louis narrates the events leading to his imprisonment.Actors
Dennis Price
(Louis Mazzini / His Father)
Valerie Hobson
(Edith D'Ascoyne)
Joan Greenwood
(Sibella)
Alec Guinness
(The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha)
Miles Malleson
(The Hangman)
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