Kind Hearts and Coronets
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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy feature film. The plot is loosely based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman, with the screenplay written by Robert Hamer and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer. The film's title derives from Tennyson's 1842 poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere: "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood."
The film stars Dennis Price (Louis Mazzini), Alec Guinness (the D'Ascoyne family), Joan Greenwood (Sibella) and Valerie Hobson (Edith).
Kind Hearts and Coronets is listed in Time magazine's top 100, and in the BFI Top 100 British films.
In 2011, the film was digitally restored and re-released in selected British cinemas.
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