Family Plot [Blu-ray]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Overview

Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune. Blanche's cohort is "investigator" Lumley (Bruce Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran (William Devane and Karen Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/06/2014
UPC:	0025192176432
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	PG
Source:	UNIVERSAL
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	2:01:00
Sales rank:	357

Special Features

Plotting Family Plot; Storyboards: The chase scene; Production photographs; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bruce Dern	Actor
Barbara Harris	Actor
William Devane	Actor
Karen Black	Actor
Ed Lauter	Maloney
Cathleen Nesbitt	Julia Rainbird
Katherine Helmond	Mrs. Maloney
Edith Atwater	Mrs. Clay
William Prince	Bishop
Nicholas Colasanto	Constantine
Marge Redmond	Vera Hannagan
John Lehne	Andy Bush
Charles Tyner	Wheeler
Alexander Lockwood	Parson
Martin West	Sanger
Warren J. Kemmerling	Grandison
Clint Young	Actor
Kate Murtagh	Actor
John Williams	Composer
Elisabeth Brooks	Woman in Cafe with Priest
Dee Carroll	Vera's Supervisor
Alan Fudge	Helicopter Pilot
Richard Hale	A.A. Adamson
Louise Lorimer	Ida Cookson
Fran Ryan	Registrar Clerk
John Steadman	Old Man in Cemetery

Technical Credits

Ernest Lehman

Victor Canning

Ernest Lehman	Screenwriter
Frank Brendel	Special Effects
Alfred Hitchcock	Producer
Albert Whitlock	Special Effects
Victor Canning	Screenwriter
Earl Madery	Sound Effects
Dick Warlock	Stunts