Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Dennis Price
Louis Mazzini / His Father
Alec Guinness
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lad...
Joan Greenwood
Sibella
Valerie Hobson
Edith D'Ascoyne
Audrey Fildes
Mama
Miles Malleson
The Hangman
Clive Morton
The Prison Governor
John Penrose
Lionel Holland
Cecil Ramage
Crown Counsel
Hugh Griffith
Lord High Steward
John Salew
Mr. Perkins
Eric Messiter
Inspector Burgoyne
Lyn Evans
The Farmer
Barbara Leake
The Schoolmistress
Peggy Ann Clifford
Maud Redpole
Anne Valery
The Girl in the Punt
Arthur Lowe
The Reporter
Peter Gawthorne
First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
Molly Hamley-Clifford
Lady Redpole (uncredited)
Leslie Handford
Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)
Cavan Malone
Young Graham (uncredited)
Jeremy Spenser
Young Louis (uncredited)
Carol White
Young Sibella (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith
Warder in Jail (uncredited)
Gordon Phillott
Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
Defence Counsel (uncredited)
Harold Young
Captain (uncredited)
Robert Hamer
Director / Screenplay
Roy Horniman
Novel
John Dighton
Screenplay
Michael Balcon
Producer
Ernest Irving
Original Music Composer / Conductor
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Peter Tanner
Editor
Nancy Mitford
Screenplay
Michael Relph
Associate Producer
Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design
William Kellner
Art Direction
Barbara Barnard
Hairstylist
Harry Frampton
Makeup Artist
Pearl Orton
Hairstylist
Ernest Taylor
Makeup Artist
Daphne Martin
Hairstylist
Leigh Aman
Unit Production Manager
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Norman Priggen
Assistant Director
Sydney Pearson
Special Effects
Roy Baker
Assistant Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 21, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 44m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsEaling Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, a vengeful Louis decides to take the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.
Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of Kind Hearts and Coronets, appointed Hamer as director. Filming took place from September 1948 at Leeds Castle and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios. Themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between classes.
Kind Hearts and Coronets was released on 13 June 1949 in the United Kingdom, and was well received by the critics. It has continued to receive favourable reviews over the years and, in 1999, it was number six in the British Film Institute's ranking of the Top 100 British films. In 2005, it was included in Time's list of the top 100 films since 1923.