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Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
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NR,1hr 44min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1949
Director:
Robert Hamer
Distributor:
Anchor Bay
Starring:
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson  ...more
Synopsis: Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Kind Hearts and Coronets is an elegant black comedy that is perhaps too much remembered for the gimmick of having Alec Guinness play eight different murder victims and too little remembered for the fine performance of Dennis Price as the murderer. One of several comedy classics of the post-WWII era from Ealing Studios, the film is both ironic and bitingly funny. While the ending of the British version ... Full Review
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Dennis Price
Louis Mazzini
Alec Guinness
Admiral d'Ascoyne, Ascoyne d'Ascoyne, Canon d'Ascoyne, Duke of Chalfont, Gen. d'Ascoyne, Henry d'Ascoyne, Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne, Lord d'Ascoyne
Valerie Hobson
Edith D'Ascoyne
Joan Greenwood
Sibella
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