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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 ...
Summaries. A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. In the hours before his execution for murder, Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs.
Sep 15, 2002 · Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, “Kind Hearts and Coronets” has a dry and detached air, established by the memoirs of Louis, who maintains a studied distance from the evils he has committed.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets, British comedy, released in 1949, that came to be recognized as one of the best British films of all time. It was noted for its dark humour and for the performance of Alec Guinness, who played eight characters.
Ruthlessly ambitious aristocrat Louis Mazzini (played by Dennis Price) seeks to avenge his mother, disowned by her family for marrying below her station, by gaining the dukedom of her distant dead relative. In order to do so, he systematically murders each of the individuals standing in his way in the line of succession—excepting those who conveniently die without his help. These relatives, seven men and one woman, are all played by Guinness, and each dies in an unusual, darkly comic way. Mazzini finds his mission compromised, however, when his romantic dalliance with the widow of one of his victims causes his former lover to launch a plot of her own.
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•Studio: Ealing Studios
•Director: Robert Hamer
•Writers: Robert Hamer and John Dighton
•Music: Ernest Irving
•Alec Guinness (The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry, Lady Agatha)
•Dennis Price (Louis Mazzini)
•Valerie Hobson (Edith D’Ascoyne)
•Joan Greenwood (Sibella Holland)
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Kind Hearts and Coronets: Directed by Robert Hamer. With Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness. A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Robert Hamer
- 1950-03
Director Robert Hamer’s fiendishly funny Kind Hearts and Coronets stands as one of Ealing Studios’ greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly black comedies ever made. Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother’s unjust disinheritance by ascending to her family’s dukedom.
Kind Hearts and Coronets follows the story of Louis Mazzini, a young man who plots to murder his way up the line of succession to the D’Ascoyne family dukedom. Louis, played brilliantly by Dennis Price, is spurred on by his mother’s dying wish to see her family’s noble title restored.
