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Apr 9, 1976 · Family Plot: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane. A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Family Plot is a 1976 American black comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his final directing role. It was based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen.
A medium, the slightly spaced-out Madame Blanche, is holding a seance with an eccentric old lady. They're in the old lady's parlor, surrounded by antiques and heirlooms and an abundance of deep shadows, and the old lady is involved in this incredibly complicated tale about events of years ago.
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Jul 16, 2021 · Family Plot. by. Alfred Hitchcock. Publication date. 1976. Usage. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. Topics.
Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver actor boyfriend George make a living by scamming people with her phony powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird, to find her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier to avoid a family scandal.
Blanche (Barbara Harris), a less than reputable psychic, and her equally shady boyfriend, George (Bruce Dern), are hired by an elderly lady to find her nephew Arthur (William Devane), who had been...
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Synopsis. Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend Geroge Lumley, an unemployed actor. The man they seek, Arthur Adamson, is posing as a legitimate jeweler while kidnapping wealthy people for a ransom in diamonds. He is assisted by his girlfriend, Fran.
Family Plot is a dazzling achievement for Alfred Hitchcock masterfully controlling shifts from comedy to drama thoughout a highly complex plot. Witty screenplay, transplanting Victor Canning's British novel, The Rainbird Pattern, to a California setting, is a model of construction, and the cast is uniformly superb.
Feb 24, 2004 · Phony psychic Blanche (Barbara Harris) is seeing a routine client (Louise Lorimer) when her cohort, cabbie George (Bruce Dern) appears with a lead on a separate case that could earn them $10,000, director Alfred Hitchcock having fun with it, in Family Plot, 1976.
