Kind Hearts And Coronets
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Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays.
Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-murderer and his family fortune.
Considered by some to be Ealing's most perfect achievement, it remains the most undated of all the Ealing films
Cast In Alphabetical Order
Alec Guinness as The D'Ascoyne Family:
The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral /
Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Arthur Lowe as The Reporter
Audrey Fildes as Mama
Barbara Leake as The Schoolmistress
Cecil Ramage as Crown Counsel
Clive Morton as The Prison Governor
Dennis Price as Louis
Eric Messiter as Burgoyne
Hugh Griffith as Lord High Steward
Joan Greenwood as Sibella
John Penrose as Lionel
John Salew as Mr. Perkins
Laurence Naismith as Jail Warder
Lyn Evans as The Farmer
Miles Malleson as The Hangman
Peggy Ann Clifford as Maud
Richard Wattis as Defence Counsel
Valerie Hobson as Edith
Crew
Directed by Robert Hamer
Produced by Michael Balcon & Michael Relph
Screenplay by Robert Hamer & John Dighton
Original novel by Roy Horniman
Released 1949
Running Time 102 minutes.
