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Kind Hearts and Coronets | BFI 75

Kind Hearts and Coronets

An Ealing Studio classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets is a deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness on superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the suave, dashing black sheep of the wealthy family, Louis (Dennis Price) must murder all the other heirs.

Nominated by

Terence Davies
Director


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Credits
DirectorRobert Hamer
CastDennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness
CountryUK
Year1949

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