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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Original title: kind hearts and coronets
Production: UK|106 min| black and white
Comedy, Dramatic, Crime
Poster of movie Kind Hearts and Coronets
a distant poor relative of the duke of d'ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Festivals and awards

Bafta 1950 - nomination Best British Film

Origin of the subject

dal libro: Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907, Roy Horniman)

Direction

Robert HamerRobert Hamer: regista

Production and Screenplay

Robert HamerRobert Hamer: sceneggiatore
John Dighton: sceneggiatore
Michael Balcon: produttore
Michael Relph: produttore
Nancy Mitford: sceneggiatore

Interpreters and Characters

Dennis PriceDennis Price(età:34)
(Louis)
Valerie HobsonValerie Hobson(età:32)
(Edith)
Joan GreenwoodJoan Greenwood(età:28)
(sibella)
Hugh GriffithHugh Griffith(età:37)
(lord high steward)
Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness(età:35)
(Henry)
Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness(età:35)
(il parroco)
Laurence NaismithLaurence Naismith(età:41)
Richard WattisRichard Wattis(età:37)
Miles MallesonMiles Malleson(età:61)
Jeremy Spenser(età:12)
Jeremy Spencer
Harold YoungHarold Young(età:52)
Arthur LoweArthur Lowe(età:35)
Carol WhiteCarol White(età:6)
Peter Gawthorne
Clive Morton(età:45)
John Salew
Stanley Beard(età:31)
Gordon Phillott(età:70)
Nicholas Hill
Peggy Ann clifford(età:28)
Leslie Handford(età:48)
Barbara Leake(età:46)
Fletcher Lightfoot(età:66)
Eric Messiter(età:57)
Lyn Evans(età:51)
Maxwell Foster(età:50)
Cecil Ramage(età:54)
Harry Phipps
Anne Valery
John Penrose
Cavan Malone
Ivan Staff
Audrey Fildes
Molly Hamley-clifford

Technical staff

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: musiche
Peter Tanner: montatore
Douglas SlocombeDouglas Slocombe: direttore della fotografia
Anthony MendlesonAnthony Mendleson: costumista
William Kellner: scenografo
Harry Frampton: truccatore
Barbara Barnard: parrucchiere
Daphne Martin: parrucchiere
Pearl Orton: parrucchiere
Ernest Irving: musiche
Ernest Taylor: truccatore

Voices and Dubbing

Version Italia(1949)

Stefano SibaldiStefano Sibaldi Voice of Dennis Price
Tina LattanziTina Lattanzi Voice of Valerie Hobson
Rosetta CalavettaRosetta Calavetta Voice of Joan Greenwood