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Kind Hearts and Coronets

He chopped down the family tree...

7.6(636)19491h 44m4

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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Released
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Language
English
  • prison
  • jealousy
  • based on novel or book
  • italian
  • poison
  • widow
  • gallows
  • dark comedy
  • hot air balloon
  • duke
  • relatives
  • singer

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Behind the camera

Director

Robert Hamer

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR14 Jun 1950
  • United KingdomGB

    • Premiere13 Jun 1949
    • TheatricalU23 Jun 1949
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical10 Feb 1950
    • TVParis Première18 Jan 2004
    • TVARTE9 Mar 2009
    • TVARTE, 2019 restoration22 Nov 2022
    • Digital / OTTArte•tv14 Jun 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical168 Jan 1957
    • TV3sat3 Apr 1999
    • TVARTE, restoration22 Nov 2022
  • IrelandIE

    • Digital / OTTG19 Aug 2011
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical6DVD19 Jul 2007
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/1229 Jun 1950
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical158 May 1950

Frequently asked questions

Kind Hearts and Coronets was released on 23 June 1949.

Audience reviews

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    Nutshell

    5/24/2020

    This is hands down my favorite Ealing Studios comedy, as I'm sure it is for many others. A most exquisite and brilliantly dark comic showcase, most especially for Dennis Price who is outstanding here in the lead role of Louis, and for some young actor named Alec Guinness who plays a whopping 8 roles in this film! In those early days the young Mr. Guinness was constantly challenging both himself, and his directors…

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    CinemaSerf

    7/9/2022

    8/10

    The best, I think, of the Ealing Comedies features a wonderful Dennis Price as the hard-done-by aristocrat who sets out to exact the most spectacular series of acts of vengeance on those whom he blames for the plights of his childhood. Alec Guinness plays the entire (somewhat doomed) "D'Ascoyne" family outstandingly (especially, I thought, the vicar) and both Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood complete this excellent …

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    Juno78

    9/19/2024

    4/10

    For everything that I'd heard about this film, I was left underwhelmed. I'd always heard that Alec Guinness was superb, playing multiple characters, but most of them were on screen for just a moment. Yes, the makeup artist did a good job making them all visually distinct, but only a couple really have a role to play in the story. There is one shot, clever for the time, which brings them all "together" which you can a…

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