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12/10/1999

BBC Four - Kind Hearts and Coronets

A rich cad murders eight relatives in order to inherit a dukedom.

The classic British black comedy about a rich cad who murders eight relatives - all played by Alec Guinness - to inherit a dukedom.

Classic Ealing comedy. When his dear mother - the spurned and disinherited heir to the dukedom of Chalfont - dies, poor Louis Mazzini forms a dastardly plot. He will kill all her family, the D'Ascoynes, and rise to fulfil his destiny as the Duke of Chalfont.

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