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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. Unfortunately, eight relatives, all played by the incomparable Alec Guinness, must be eliminated before he can do so.
Original Release
06/21/1949
US Release
06/14/1950
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Dennis Price | Louis / Louis Mazzini / His Father |
Valerie Hobson | Edith / Edith D'Ascoyne |
Joan Greenwood | Sibella |
Alec Guinness | Lady Agatha / The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry |
Audrey Fildes | Mama |
Miles Malleson | The Hangman |
Clive Morton | The Prison Governor |
John Penrose | Lionel / Lionel Holland |
Cecil Ramage | Crown Counsel |
Hugh Griffith | Lord High Steward |
Directors
Writers
Robert Hamer, Roy Horniman, John Dighton, Nancy Mitford
Cast
Name | Character |
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Dennis Price | Louis / Louis Mazzini / His Father |
Valerie Hobson | Edith / Edith D'Ascoyne |
Joan Greenwood | Sibella |
Alec Guinness | Lady Agatha / The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry |
Audrey Fildes | Mama |
Miles Malleson | The Hangman |
Clive Morton | The Prison Governor |
John Penrose | Lionel / Lionel Holland |
Cecil Ramage | Crown Counsel |
Hugh Griffith | Lord High Steward |
John Salew | Mr. Perkins |
Eric Messiter | Burgoyne / Inspector Burgoyne |
Lyn Evans | The Farmer |
Barbara Leake | The Schoolmistress |
Peggy Ann Clifford | Maud / Maud Redpole |
Anne Valery | The Girl in the Punt |
Arthur Lowe | The Reporter |
Stanley Beard | Warder |
Norman Fisher | Member of D'Ascoyne Household |
Maxwell Foster | Warder |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Michael Balcon | Producer |
Michael Relph | Producer |