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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets
is a British
black comedy
film of 1949 starring
Dennis Price
,
Joan Greenwood
,
Valerie Hobson
, and
Alec Guinness
, who famously plays eight distinct characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel
Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal
(1907) by
Roy Horniman
, with the screenplay written by
Robert Hamer
and
John Dighton
and the film directed by Hamer. The title refers to a line in
Tennyson
's poem
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
: "Kind hearts are more than
coronets
, and simple faith than
Norman
blood."
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