Film poster advertising the Ealing Studios production, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 1949. Designed by James Fitton.

'Kind Hearts and Coronets' is a 1949 British black comedy film featuring Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness who plays nine characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel 'Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal' (1907) by Roy Horniman. It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take the dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.