< Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

MOVIE | 1h 46m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 8.0 (42_020)

Comedy, Crime | A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

• Director: Robert Hamer
• Writer: Roy Horniman
• Writer: Robert Hamer
• Writer: John Dighton
• Writer: Nancy Mitford
• Dennis Price (34) - Louis
• Valerie Hobson (32) - Edith
• Joan Greenwood (28) - Sibella
• Alec Guinness (35) - The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke // The Banker // The Parson
• Audrey Fildes (27) - Mama
• Miles Malleson (61) - The Hangman
• Clive Morton (45) - The Prison Governor
• John Penrose (35) - Lionel
• Cecil Ramage (54) - Crown Counsel
• Hugh Griffith (37) - Lord High Steward
• John Salew (47) - Mr. Perkins
• Eric Messiter (57) - Burgoyne
• Lyn Evans (51) - The Farmer
• Barbara Leake (46) - The Schoolmistress
• Peggy Ann Clifford (28) - Maud
• Anne Valery (23) - The Girl in the Punt
• Arthur Lowe (34) - The Reporter
• Stanley Beard (31) - Warder
• Norman Fisher - Member of D'Ascoyne Household
• Maxwell Foster (50) - Warder