Search - Kind Hearts and Coronets [Criterion Collection] on DVD

Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1949 DVD Release: 02/28/2006 Format: DVD - Black and White Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: Criterion Members Wishing: 14 Genres: Comedy, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy See Also: Kind Hearts and Coronets

Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness). Along the way he romances Sibella (Joan Greenwood), a childhood friend who ends up marrying a dullard, and Edith (Valerie Hobson), the beautiful widow of one of his victims with whom he plans to share his title. But just when Louis is ready to assume the D'Ascoyne mantle, a bizarre irony strikes. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Dennis Price - Louis Mazzini
Alec Guinness - Lord d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Henry d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Gen. d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Duke of Chalfont
Alec Guinness - Canon d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Ascoyne d'Ascoyne
Alec Guinness - Admiral d'Ascoyne
Valerie Hobson - Edith D'Ascoyne
Joan Greenwood - Sibella