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The Cast A C C E S S O R I E S poisons Unde Henry torpedoes Undo Horatio shoots Unde Ethelr ed drowns Cousin Ascoyne explodes Cousin Henry pierces Aunt Agothq blows up Uncle Rufus ALEC DENNIS VALERIE A Michael Belcnn Producton Made it rahng Stuck*; ONE-SHEET ORDER ALL ACCESSORIES INCLUDING 11x14 LOBBY PHOTOS FROM NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE INSERT CARD 22x28 Louis... Edith..;... Sibella .. The Duke The Banker The Parson The General The Admiral Young Ascoyne Young Henry Lady Agatha Mama. The Hangman. The Prison Governor. Lionel .. —o— .Dennis Price Valerie Hobson Joan Greenwood Alec Guinness ...Audrey Fildes Miles Malleson Clive Morton .John Penrose The Credits J. Arthur Rank presents Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness in "Kind Hearts and Coronets.” An Eagle Lion Films release. Based on a novel by Roy Horniman. Made at Ealing Studios, London, Eng¬ land. A Michael Balcon production, directed by Robert Hamer, screenplay by Robert Hamer and John Dighton. Associate producer, Michael Relph. Director of photog¬ raphy, Douglas Slocombe. Jiditor, Peter Tanner. Produc¬ tion supervisor, Hal Mason. Assistant director, Norman Priggen. Music played by The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Irving. The Story (Not for Publication) Louis DAscoyne Mazzini (Dennis Price), son of an Italian father and an English mother (Audrey Fildes), swears vengeance on the DAscoyne family of England because the family has rejected and mistreated his mother for eloping with an Italian singer, and because Louis wants the family dukedom which is theoretically possible for him to achieve. He sets out to systematically remove the eight persons to whom the noble title would fall be¬ fore it reached him. He eliminates two contenders by cleverly conceived "accidents,” poisons a third, shoots down a fourth who ] is up in the air in a balloon, explodes a fifth. Two rivals jj obligingly eliminate themselves, one in a naval accident, H the other through a stroke. To remove the eighth and last H contender, Mazzini arranges a mantrap while on a shoot- 11 ing jaunt. (All eight of the noble DAscoynes are played |j by Alec Guinness). m When Mazzini was poor and ignoble, his sweetheart gj Sibella (Joan Greenwood), first encouraged him to try to U seize the title, then spurned him and married another ■ man when Louis seemed to be getting nowhere. Mean- 11 while, Mazzini has fallen in love with Edith (Valerie H Hobson), widow of one of his victims, and marries her. | Once, however, he nears his goal, Sibella revives interest H in Louis and returns into his life. Ultimately, her interest m leads to his undoing. Louis reaches the House of Lords as a peer of England, tenth Duke of Chalfont. But he does not take his seat. Instead, he is tried for murder. Which murder? There are many. He is convicted, goes to jail to await execution, ffi While there, he writes the history of his deeds. Reprieved ■ at the last moment, he almost escapes retribution. But his m boasting memoirs, left behind in the cell, trap him. illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM Copyright 1950, by Pathe Industries, Inc.—Country of Origin U.S.A. Printed in U.S.A.