Kind Hearts and Coronets





Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
An impecunious heir eliminates eight D’Ascoynes who stand between him and the family fortune
A genteel mass-murderer is out to heartlessly crown the eight relatives standing between him and the family fortune.
In his greatest virtuoso performance, the late Alec Guinness plays all eight victims. Like his skilful brilliance in acting each different eccentric, Ealing Studio’s witty black comedy is regarded as without peer in the history of British cinema.
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GB (Ealing), 1949, 106 minutes, B&W, Robert Hamer (Screenplay), Roy Horniman (Novel), Robert Hamer (Director)
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Alec Guinness as the Admiral in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Admiral (Alec Guinness) in the 1949 film, Kind Hearts and Coronets.

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Valerie Hobson (as Edith) and Dennis Price (as Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator) in a photograph from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (17).

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Joan Greenwood (as Sibella) and Dennis Price (as Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator) in an Argentine photograph from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (16).

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Joan Greenwood (as Sibella) and Dennis Price (as Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator) in a photograph from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (14).

Louis Mazzino seduces Sibella in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini and Joan Greenwood as Sibella in the film ’Kind Hearts And Coronets’, directed by Robert Hamer and produced by Ealing Studios.

Dennis Price and Joan Greenwood in Kind Hearts and Coronets
British actor Dennis Price and actress Joan Greenwood in a scene from the urbane black comedy ’Kind Hearts and Coronets’, directed by Robert Hamer for Ealing Studios.

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Alec Guinness (as The Duke/ The Banker/ The Parson/ The General/ The Admiral/ Young Ascoyne D’Ascoyne/Young Henry/ Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne) and Dennis Price (as Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator) in a photograph from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (12).

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Film Complet magazine with Dennis Price in Kind Hearts and Coronets. 27th August, 1953, issue number 396. (French). Noblesse Oblige.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) photograph (8) | Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (as The Duke/ The Banker/ The Parson/ The General/ The Admiral/ Young Ascoyne D’Ascoyne/Young Henry/ Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne) and Dennis Price (as Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator) in a photograph from Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (8).

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