
Kind Hearts and Coronets
He chopped down the family tree...
1949 en 104 minutes
Rating: 7.7
Plot
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
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Cast

Dennis Price
Louis Mazzini / His Father

Alec Guinness
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

Joan Greenwood
Sibella

Valerie Hobson
Edith D'Ascoyne

Audrey Fildes
Mama

Miles Malleson
The Hangman

Clive Morton
The Prison Governor

John Penrose
Lionel Holland

Cecil Ramage
Crown Counsel

Hugh Griffith
Lord High Steward

John Salew
Mr. Perkins

Eric Messiter
Inspector Burgoyne

Lyn Evans
The Farmer

Barbara Leake
The Schoolmistress

Peggy Ann Clifford
Maud Redpole

Anne Valery
The Girl in the Punt

Arthur Lowe
The Reporter

Peter Gawthorne
First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)

Molly Hamley-Clifford
Lady Redpole (uncredited)

Leslie Handford
Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)

Cavan Malone
Young Graham (uncredited)

Jeremy Spenser
Young Louis (uncredited)

Carol White
Young Sibella (uncredited)

Laurence Naismith
Warder in Jail (uncredited)

Gordon Phillott
Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)

Richard Wattis
Defence Counsel (uncredited)

Harold Young
Captain (uncredited)