Family Plot
There's no body in the family plot.
Country
Production
Budget
$4 500 000
Box office
$13 200 000
Director
Actors
Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Ed Lauter, Cathleen Nesbitt, Katherine Helmond, Warren J. Kemmerling, Edith Atwater, William Prince
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Leonard J. South
Composer
Artist
Audition
William Batliner
Editing
J. Terry Williams
Whole Team (23)
Whole Team (23)
Short description
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
What's left behind the scenes
- The screenplay was initially written under the title "One Plus One Equals One." The film entered production under the title "Deception."
- Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
- "Family Plot" was the last, 53rd, film by the great Hitchcock.
- Hitchcock planned for Burt Reynolds or Roy Scheider to play Adamson. He also intended to invite Al Pacino or Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and Beverly Sills or Liza Minnelli for the roles of George, Fran, and Blanche, but considered these actors too “expensive” for his project.
- “Family Plot” is one of ten films based on the works of Victor Canning. In the US, the book was released as “Family Plot,” while its original title, under which it was first published in England, was “The Rainbird Pattern.”
- As a promotional stunt to promote the film, Hitchcock held a press conference in a specially made cemetery set. The names of the invited journalists were “engraved” on the tombstone mockups.
- Alfred Hitchcock’s cameo – Hitchcock’s silhouette is visible through a glass door with the inscription “Births and Deaths Registry.”
- The final shot of the film, in which Blanche winks at the camera, is an improvisation by Barbara Harris that Hitchcock left in the film.
- As a promotional stunt to promote the film, Hitchcock held a press conference in specially made cemetery sets. The names of the invited journalists were "carved" on the tombstone mockups.
- The final shot of the film, in which Blanche winks at the camera, is an improvisation by Barbara Harris, left in the picture by Hitchcock.
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