Kind Hearts and Coronets
He chopped down the family tree...
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
- Year: 1949
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Comedy, Crime
- Studio: Ealing Studios, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Keyword: prison, jealousy, based on novel or book, italian, poison, widow, gallows, dark comedy, hot air balloon, duke, relatives, singer, black and white, series of murders, heir, dysfunctional relationship, edwardian england, 1900s, understated, absurd
- Director: Robert Hamer
- Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson