Kind Hearts and Coronets poster
Director Robert Hamer
Screenplay Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Nancy Mitford

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Tagline: He chopped down the family tree...

Release Date: 1949-06-21

Duration: 104 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Laurence Naismith
    Warder in Jail (uncredited)
  • Alec Guinness
    The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
  • Hugh Griffith
    Lord High Steward
  • Arthur Lowe
    The Reporter
  • Dennis Price
    Louis Mazzini / His Father
  • Richard Wattis
    Defence Counsel (uncredited)
  • Joan Greenwood
    Sibella
  • Carol White
    Young Sibella (uncredited)
  • Miles Malleson
    The Hangman
  • John Salew
    Mr. Perkins