Kind Hearts and Coronets backdrop

Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Directed by Robert Hamer

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.

Production Country United Kingdom
Language English
Spoken Language English
Gneres Comedy , Crime
Release Date 21 June 1949
104 mins
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
Valerie Hobson Edith D'Ascoyne
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)