Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)




Alec Guinness - Kind Hearts and Coronets




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.


Books on Kind Hearts and Coronets

Michael Newton
Kind Hearts and Coronets
London, 2003

Books with substantial mentioning of Kind Hearts and Coronets

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Anthony Slide
Fifty Classic British Films Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record
New York, 1985

Ann Lloyd (editor)
Movies of the Forties
London, 1982

Jerry Vermilye
The Great British Films
Secaucus, N.J., 1978

Books with an entry on Kind Hearts and Coronets

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973

Articles with substantial mentioning of Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kim Newman, The 10 Best Ever Screenplays, in: Empire, nr. 186, 2004 pp. 72-73

Mark Duguid, The dark side of Ealing, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 11 (November), 2012 pp. 54-61