Kind Hearts and Coronets

Name: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1949-06-23
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson

1949 · 1h 44m · Comedy, Crime · United Kingdom · Rated U (GB)

He chopped down the family tree...

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.

Directed by

Robert Hamer

Written by

John Dighton, Robert Hamer

Based on the novel by

Roy Horniman

Starring

Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson

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1900sabsurdbased on novel or bookblack and whitedark comedydukedysfunctional relationshipedwardian englandgallowsheirhot air balloonitalianjealousypoisonprisonrelativesseries of murderssingerunderstatedwidow

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