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Family Plot - Alfred Hitchcock

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Directed by: 
Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by: 
Victor Canning
Ernest Lehman
Produced by: 
Alfred Hitchcock
Release year: 
1976
Country: 
United States of America
Runtime: 
121min
Genre: 
Thriller
Mystery
Psychological thriller
Black comedy
Detective fiction
Comedy
Crime Fiction
Music by: 
John Williams
Locations: 
Angeles National Forest
Soundtrack: 
Family Plot
Tagline: 
There's no body in the family plot.
Plot: 
The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal. Julia promises the small fortune of ten thousand-dollar to Blanche if she finds her nephew and heir of her fortune using her phony powers. Blanche asks her boyfriend George Lumley, who is an unemployed actor working as cab driver, to investigate the whereabouts of Julia's nephew. Meanwhile, the greedy jeweler and collector Arthur Adamson kidnaps wealthy people with his girlfriend Fran to increase his collection of diamonds with the ransom. When George concludes that Arthur Adamson might be the heir of Julia Rainbird, the reckless Blanche gets in trouble with the kidnappers.
Cast: 
Karen Black
as
Fran
Bruce Dern
as
George Lumley
Barbara Harris
as
Blanche Tyler
William Devane
as
Arthur Adamson
Ed Lauter
as
Maloney
Katherine Helmond
as
Mrs. Maloney
Cathleen Nesbitt
as
Julia Rainbird
Nicholas Colasanto
as
Constantine
William Prince
as
Bishop
Warren J. Kemmerling
as
Grandison
Edith Atwater
as
Mrs. Clay
Alfred Hitchcock
as
Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics
Marge Redmond
as
Vera Hannagan
John Lehne
as
Andy Bush
Charles Tyner
as
Wheeler
Alexander Lockwood
as
Parson
Martin West
as
Sanger
Elisabeth Brooks
as
Woman in Cafe with Priest
Dee Carroll
as
Vera's Supervisor
Alan Fudge
as
Helicopter Pilot
Richard Hale
as
A.A. Adamson
Louise Lorimer
as
Ida Cookson
Fran Ryan
as
Registrar Clerk
John Steadman
as
Old Man in Cemetery

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