Kind Hearts and Coronets

Comedy Drama ★ 7.7

The penniless grandson of a duke plots to eliminate the eight relatives standing between him and a vast inheritance. He shoots, drowns, poisons and explodes his way through his family tree, but his final triumph is ruined when his lady love's husband kills himself. Ealing black comedy, starring Alec Guinness as all eight potential victims, with Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood

Thursday, 3 September 2 airings
21:00
GREAT! tv
Kind Hearts and Coronets
21:57
GREAT! tv
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Cast
Dennis Price
Dennis Price
Louis Mazzini / His Father
Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood
Sibella
Valerie Hobson
Valerie Hobson
Edith D'Ascoyne
Audrey Fildes
Audrey Fildes
Mama
Miles Malleson
Miles Malleson
The Hangman
Clive Morton
Clive Morton
The Prison Governor
John Penrose
John Penrose
Lionel Holland
Cecil Ramage
Cecil Ramage
Crown Counsel
Hugh Griffith
Hugh Griffith
Lord High Steward
John Salew
John Salew
Mr. Perkins
E
Eric Messiter
Inspector Burgoyne
L
Lyn Evans
The Farmer
B
Barbara Leake
The Schoolmistress
P
Peggy Ann Clifford
Maud Redpole