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title: 'Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert Hamer'
released: '1949-06-23'
runtime_minutes: 101
genres:
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kind-hearts-and-coronets-1949'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1949 · 101 min · Crime · United Kingdom

Part of: Ealing comedies

## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert Hamer](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-hamer)
- **Screenplay:** [John Dighton](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-dighton)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernest Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-irving)
- **Producer:** [Michael Balcon](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-balcon), [Michael Relph](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-relph)
- **Director of Photography:** [Douglas Slocombe](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-slocombe)

## Cast

- [Alec Guinness](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-guinness)
- [Hugh Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-griffith)
- [Dennis Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-price)
- [Joan Greenwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-greenwood)
- [Valerie Hobson](https://cinepixo.com/people/valerie-hobson)
- [Miles Malleson](https://cinepixo.com/people/miles-malleson)

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