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A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller film directed and written by Andrew L. Stone and starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters and Gary Merrill.
Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew? Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father.
Mar 20, 2020 · A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 thriller film noir starring Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Gary Merrill. Andrew L. Stone wrote and directed the film. Find out more about the movie here.
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After Joseph Cotten's niece dies early in A Blueprint for Murder (1953), he gradually comes to suspect her stepmother (Jean Peters) of murdering her with poison; Peters had been married to Cotten's late brother and stands to inherit his vast estate. Cotten concocts a wild scheme to prove his suspicions before his nephew suffers a similar demise ...
Whitney Cameron (Joseph Cotten) is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn (Jean Peters), but also harbors serious suspicions about her.
- Crime, Drama
In Andrew L. Stone’s A Blueprint for Murder, murder within the monied class is far subtler, quieter, and less violent than murder among the thugs and underworld we find in the rest of film noir.
Overview. Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's ...
Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with the same mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, but that poisoners are seldom detected and rarely convicted.
A Blueprint for Murder. Whitney Cameron has a real fondness for his pretty sister-in-law, Lynne, but when one of her stepchildren mysteriously dies, an autopsy indicates that the child was poisoned.
