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Kind Hearts and Coronets

He chopped down the family tree...

1949 · NR · 1h 44m

Directed by Robert Hamer

7.6

TMDB audience score
637 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • 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 / Lady Agatha

  • 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)