“At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system.”
Louis Manzzini (Dennis Price) a distant - & poor - relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne, plots to inherit the title by murdering all eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession (all played brilliantly by Alec Guinness). Out of the 80 films shot by cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, Kind Hearts and Coronets was one of his personal favourites.
This is a high definition trailer for the superb 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, directed by Robert Hamer and starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson.