Kind Hearts and Coronets

About Kind Hearts and Coronets

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.

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is a comedy crime film directed by Robert Hamer. Dennis Price appears as Louis Mazzini, Alec Guinness as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke, Joan Greenwood as Sibella, and Valerie Hobson as Edith D'Ascoyne.

Released in June 1949, it runs 104 minutes. Written by John Dighton and Robert Hamer. It was produced by J. Arthur Rank Organisation. The film began as a novel.

Shelv files it under singer, widow, 1900s, and series of murders. It streams on BFI Player Amazon Channel and Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 634 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

The Night of the Hunter, Priscilla, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas make useful companions to Kind Hearts and Coronets, all filed under black and white and prison.