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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

19491h 26mdir. Robert HamerUnited Kingdomcrime film

Note: this print runs 86 minutes against a recorded 101 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Miles Malleson, Hugh Griffith

Directed by Robert Hamer

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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, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, a vengeful Louis decides to take the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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