Kind Hearts and Coronets
(From left to right) Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, and Dennis Price in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), directed by Robert Hamer.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
film by Hamer [1949]
Kind Hearts and Coronets, British comedy, released in 1949, that came to be recognized as one of the best British films of all time. It was noted for its dark humour and for the performance of Alec Guinness, who played eight characters. Ruthlessly ambitious aristocrat Louis Mazzini (played by Dennis Price) seeks to avenge his mother, disowned by her family for marrying below her station, by gaining the dukedom of her distant dead relative. In order to do so, he systematically murders each of the individuals standing in his way in the line of succession—excepting those who conveniently die without ...(100 of 250 words)