Principal cast
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Audrey Fildes
Film 337 of 342 on the Screen Path
Kind Hearts and Coronets
He chopped down the family tree...
About the film
Kind Hearts and Coronets at a glance.
Screen Path places this 1949 film at stop 337 in one curated journey through cinema. The learning experience adds context before you watch and deeper analysis after.
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.
Key craft credits
Douglas Slocombe (director of photography), Peter Tanner (editor), Ernest Irving (original music composer), John Dighton (screenplay) and Robert Hamer (screenplay)
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Release
- 1949-06-23
- Runtime
- 104 minutes
- Genres
- Comedy and Crime
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Quiz
- 50 questions
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Start the example →Full cast
Full cast
- Dennis PriceCharacter: Louis Mazzini / His Father
- Alec GuinnessCharacter: The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
- Joan GreenwoodCharacter: Sibella
- Valerie HobsonCharacter: Edith D'Ascoyne
- Audrey FildesCharacter: Mama
- Miles MallesonCharacter: The Hangman
- Clive MortonCharacter: The Prison Governor
- John PenroseCharacter: Lionel Holland
- Cecil RamageCharacter: Crown Counsel
- Hugh GriffithCharacter: Lord High Steward
- John SalewCharacter: Mr. Perkins
- Eric MessiterCharacter: Inspector Burgoyne
Full crew
Full crew
- Robert HamerCredits: Director, Screenplay
- Roy HornimanCredits: Novel
- Michael BalconCredits: Producer
- Ernest IrvingCredits: Original Music Composer, Conductor
- Peter TannerCredits: Editor
- John DightonCredits: Screenplay
- Douglas SlocombeCredits: Director of Photography
- William KellnerCredits: Art Direction
- Michael RelphCredits: Associate Producer
- Ernest TaylorCredits: Makeup Artist
- Sydney PearsonCredits: Special Effects
- Barbara BarnardCredits: Hairstylist
- Pearl OrtonCredits: Hairstylist
- Harry FramptonCredits: Makeup Artist
- Jeff SeaholmeCredits: Camera Operator
- Hal MasonCredits: Production Supervisor
- Roy BakerCredits: Assistant Editor
- Leigh AmanCredits: Unit Production Manager
- Bert DaveyCredits: Assistant Art Director
- John JympsonCredits: Assistant Editor
- Seth HoltCredits: Editorial Services
- Anthony MendlesonCredits: Costume Design
- Norman PriggenCredits: Assistant Director
- Geoffrey DickinsonCredits: Special Effects
- Stephen DalbyCredits: Sound Director
- Phyllis CrockerCredits: Continuity
- John W. MitchellCredits: Sound Recordist
- Nancy MitfordCredits: Additional Writing
- Margaret Harper NelsonCredits: Casting Director
- Daphne MartinCredits: Assistant Hairstylist
- John HewlettCredits: Third Assistant Director
- David W. OrtonCredits: Second Assistant Director
- Grace Bryan-BrownCredits: Draughtsman
- Norman DormeCredits: Draughtsman
- Roger HopkinCredits: Draughtsman
- Jack ShampanCredits: Draughtsman
- Norman KingCredits: Sound Engineer
- Peter MusgraveCredits: Assistant Sound Editor
- Gordon StoneCredits: ADR & Dubbing
- Jack DooleyCredits: Still Photographer
- Arthur LemmingCredits: Assistant Camera
- Bob PennCredits: Still Photographer
- Ken WestburyCredits: Clapper Loader
- Hugh WilsonCredits: Focus Puller
- Edith CrutchleyCredits: Wardrobe Master
- Ben FosterCredits: Wardrobe Master
- J. Arthur RankCredits: Presenter
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